Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsSwan Sonnenschein and Company, 1889 - 336 páginas |
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... occasionally been met with in Orkney , but not in Shetland . In winter it migrates to the south - east , and at that season is not uncommon in Egypt , Nubia , and Abyssinia , travelling also through Asia Minor , Arabia and Persia , as ...
... occasionally been met with in Orkney , but not in Shetland . In winter it migrates to the south - east , and at that season is not uncommon in Egypt , Nubia , and Abyssinia , travelling also through Asia Minor , Arabia and Persia , as ...
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... ; 1 they are also more strictly arboreal in their habits , 1 Dr. Bree states that he has occasionally observed the Willow Wren taking currants from his trees . and as regards the character of their nests , they THE WOOD WARBLER . 19.
... ; 1 they are also more strictly arboreal in their habits , 1 Dr. Bree states that he has occasionally observed the Willow Wren taking currants from his trees . and as regards the character of their nests , they THE WOOD WARBLER . 19.
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... occasionally mixed with a little moss ; and although I have sometimes found horsehair inside , I do not remember to have seen or heard of an instance in which any feathers were employed . The eggs , five or six in number , are white ...
... occasionally mixed with a little moss ; and although I have sometimes found horsehair inside , I do not remember to have seen or heard of an instance in which any feathers were employed . The eggs , five or six in number , are white ...
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... occasionally in those of Roxburgh , Selkirk , Renfrew and Stir- ling . " Mr. A. G. More , in an article " On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the Nesting Season , " published in the " Ibis " for 1865 , observes ( p . 26 ) ...
... occasionally in those of Roxburgh , Selkirk , Renfrew and Stir- ling . " Mr. A. G. More , in an article " On the Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the Nesting Season , " published in the " Ibis " for 1865 , observes ( p . 26 ) ...
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... occasionally been seen in Orkney , and the late Dr. Saxby has recorded a single instance of its occurrence in Shetland . Through every country in Europe it seems to be well known as a periodical migrant . The winter quarters of the ...
... occasionally been seen in Orkney , and the late Dr. Saxby has recorded a single instance of its occurrence in Shetland . Through every country in Europe it seems to be well known as a periodical migrant . The winter quarters of the ...
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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 - 1877 |
Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1875 |
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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 Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist