Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... months , but never upon the alluvion or mud soil ; and the same remark applies to Hippolais rama . It has been suggested to me that there may be a race of ' Blackcap ' that visits Eastern Europe , the males of which have a rufous ...
... months , but never upon the alluvion or mud soil ; and the same remark applies to Hippolais rama . It has been suggested to me that there may be a race of ' Blackcap ' that visits Eastern Europe , the males of which have a rufous ...
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... month of July . Its habits , and as Mr. Thompson says , the grotesquely earnest appearance which the erected crest , feathers , and distended throat impart when singing , render this bird one of the most interesting of our warblers . It ...
... month of July . Its habits , and as Mr. Thompson says , the grotesquely earnest appearance which the erected crest , feathers , and distended throat impart when singing , render this bird one of the most interesting of our warblers . It ...
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... month of September , 1874 . The bird first attracted my attention by the very rufous colour of the dorsal plumage , and as I succeeded in obtaining a near view of it , I feel confident that I was not mistaken in the species . The nest ...
... month of September , 1874 . The bird first attracted my attention by the very rufous colour of the dorsal plumage , and as I succeeded in obtaining a near view of it , I feel confident that I was not mistaken in the species . The nest ...
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... month , or early in September , they may be seen of a morning , flying invariably from west to east , parallel to the shore , but following each other in constant succession . These flights continue from daybreak until about ten o'clock ...
... month , or early in September , they may be seen of a morning , flying invariably from west to east , parallel to the shore , but following each other in constant succession . These flights continue from daybreak until about ten o'clock ...
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... months old , and unequal to protracted flights.1 The habits of the Pied Wagtail are so generally known , that little need be said here upon the subject . Its partiality for shal- low water , where it preys upon aquatic insects , and ...
... months old , and unequal to protracted flights.1 The habits of the Pied Wagtail are so generally known , that little need be said here upon the subject . Its partiality for shal- low water , where it preys upon aquatic insects , and ...
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1889 |
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amongst Anthus appearance April arrival Blackcap Blyth breed British Birds British Islands Canon Tristram Chiff-chaff claw coast colour common congeners Cuckoo eastward eggs Egypt England Europe feathers Flycatcher frequently Garden Warbler genus Grasshopper Warbler grey ground habits hatched haunts Hist Hoopoe Howard Saunders Ibis India insects instance Ireland June Landrail Lapland Lesser Whitethroat Lord Lilford male Malta Martin Meadow Pipit Mediterranean migration month naturalists neighbourhood nest Nightingale Nightjar Norfolk North Africa noticed observed occasionally occurrence Ornithology Palestine palustris plumage Professor Newton rare Redstart Reed Warbler regular summer remarked resembles Rock Pipit says Scotland season Sedge Warbler seen September Shetland shot song southward species specimens spotted spring and autumn Stonechat strepera summer migrants summer visitant Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist