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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... plumage upon a spray of furze in full bloom . In Ireland the Stonechat is considered to be a resident species , and this is attributed by Mr. Thompson to the mild winters of that island . In Scotland , on the contrary , Sir Wm . Jardine ...
... plumage upon a spray of furze in full bloom . In Ireland the Stonechat is considered to be a resident species , and this is attributed by Mr. Thompson to the mild winters of that island . In Scotland , on the contrary , Sir Wm . Jardine ...
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... plumage seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not by a moult . Apropos of this subject , the reader may be referred to an article contributed by me to the Natural History columns of " The Field , " 16th ...
... plumage seems to be effected by a change of colour in the same feathers , and not by a moult . Apropos of this subject , the reader may be referred to an article contributed by me to the Natural History columns of " The Field , " 16th ...
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... plumage tipped with buff colour . In some respects the Nightingale assi- milates very much in habits to the Robin ; and advantage has been taken of this in localities where the Nightingale is unknown to introduce its eggs into the nests ...
... plumage tipped with buff colour . In some respects the Nightingale assi- milates very much in habits to the Robin ; and advantage has been taken of this in localities where the Nightingale is unknown to introduce its eggs into the nests ...
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... plumage ( as the Cuckoo likewise does ) when in their winter quarters ; whereas the Sand - martins ( Cotyle ) , as I am all but sure from recollection , resemble the great majority of our summer migrants in moulting before they take ...
... plumage ( as the Cuckoo likewise does ) when in their winter quarters ; whereas the Sand - martins ( Cotyle ) , as I am all but sure from recollection , resemble the great majority of our summer migrants in moulting before they take ...
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... plumage was not sufficiently juvenile ; and I think that the old birds adopt a different colouring according to the time of year , probably putting on the black head as the breeding season approaches . " To this observation the editor ...
... plumage was not sufficiently juvenile ; and I think that the old birds adopt a different colouring according to the time of year , probably putting on the black head as the breeding season approaches . " To this observation the editor ...
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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ... James Edmund Harting Visualização integral - 1877 |
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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