Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 6-10 de 10
Página 207
... favourite localities in all quarters of the island , but of rare occurrence elsewhere.2 1 " The Land of Israel , " p . 250. 2 Thompson , op . cit . In colour this bird resembles a large moth , being THE NIGHTJAR . 207.
... favourite localities in all quarters of the island , but of rare occurrence elsewhere.2 1 " The Land of Israel , " p . 250. 2 Thompson , op . cit . In colour this bird resembles a large moth , being THE NIGHTJAR . 207.
Página 208
... resembles a large moth , being most beautifully and delicately streaked and mottled with various shades of black , brown , grey , and buff , but in appearance it is not un- like a hawk , having long pointed wings more than seven inches ...
... resembles a large moth , being most beautifully and delicately streaked and mottled with various shades of black , brown , grey , and buff , but in appearance it is not un- like a hawk , having long pointed wings more than seven inches ...
Página 211
... resembles that of a Hawk that I have twice seen a keeper shoot one , ex- claiming , " There goes a Hawk ! " I was not a little surprised one day at finding one of these birds in the middle of a turnip - field . We had marked down some ...
... resembles that of a Hawk that I have twice seen a keeper shoot one , ex- claiming , " There goes a Hawk ! " I was not a little surprised one day at finding one of these birds in the middle of a turnip - field . We had marked down some ...
Página 244
... resembles that of Picus than that of Cuculus , although it is not wedge - shaped at the point . On the other hand the tail has no resemblance to that of the Woodpecker . The genus Fynx , therefore , seems to stand between these two ...
... resembles that of Picus than that of Cuculus , although it is not wedge - shaped at the point . On the other hand the tail has no resemblance to that of the Woodpecker . The genus Fynx , therefore , seems to stand between these two ...
Página 246
... resembles , though less harsh , the cry of the Kestrel . In its mode of nidification , the Wryneck resembles the Woodpeckers , selecting a hole in a tree wherein to deposit its eggs , which are six or seven in number , pure white , and ...
... resembles , though less harsh , the cry of the Kestrel . In its mode of nidification , the Wryneck resembles the Woodpeckers , selecting a hole in a tree wherein to deposit its eggs , which are six or seven in number , pure white , and ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
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 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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