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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... seen to flock , and it was a rare thing to see more than three or four at a time ; so that there must have been a perpetual flitting and constant progressive succession . The Wheatear is partial to commons and 35 1 As to other changes ...
... seen to flock , and it was a rare thing to see more than three or four at a time ; so that there must have been a perpetual flitting and constant progressive succession . The Wheatear is partial to commons and 35 1 As to other changes ...
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... seen on gate- posts and rails , where a broader footing is afforded it . Its song is rather sprightly , and is occasionally uttered on the wing . The contrast between the spring and autumn plumage of this bird is very remarkable . If an ...
... seen on gate- posts and rails , where a broader footing is afforded it . Its song is rather sprightly , and is occasionally uttered on the wing . The contrast between the spring and autumn plumage of this bird is very remarkable . If an ...
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... seen the Whinchat numerous , and compared with the Stonechat it is very scarce . " In the south of Scotland , according to Macgillivray , it seldom makes its appearance before the end of April , that is , more than a fortnight after its ...
... seen the Whinchat numerous , and compared with the Stonechat it is very scarce . " In the south of Scotland , according to Macgillivray , it seldom makes its appearance before the end of April , that is , more than a fortnight after its ...
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... seen darting into the air for insects , after the manner of a Flycatcher . It derives its name , of course , from the fact of its being found upon the whin , or furze , a favourite perch also for its congener the Stone- chat . The ...
... seen darting into the air for insects , after the manner of a Flycatcher . It derives its name , of course , from the fact of its being found upon the whin , or furze , a favourite perch also for its congener the Stone- chat . The ...
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... seen later . As these little birds make their appearance at a season when caterpillars and destructive larvæ begin to be troublesome , the good they do in ridding the young leaves and buds of these pests is incalculable . I have watched ...
... seen later . As these little birds make their appearance at a season when caterpillars and destructive larvæ begin to be troublesome , the good they do in ridding the young leaves and buds of these pests is incalculable . I have watched ...
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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