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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... shot a few Garden War- blers in the spring soon after their arrival , for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of their ' food , and can therefore affirm , from personal inspection , that they destroy quantities of insects which are ...
... shot a few Garden War- blers in the spring soon after their arrival , for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of their ' food , and can therefore affirm , from personal inspection , that they destroy quantities of insects which are ...
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... shot these birds I received from Romney Marsh fresh - killed spe- cimens of the true Reed Warbler , shot in the reeds of the fen ditches ; and in comparing the two birds in the flesh together , I have little hesitation in saying that ...
... shot these birds I received from Romney Marsh fresh - killed spe- cimens of the true Reed Warbler , shot in the reeds of the fen ditches ; and in comparing the two birds in the flesh together , I have little hesitation in saying that ...
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... shot by him , I am inclined to regard them all as S. strepera . This peculiarity in the Reed Warbler of nesting at a distance from water has since been noticed by naturalists in other parts of the country . In 1866 I referred to a ...
... shot by him , I am inclined to regard them all as S. strepera . This peculiarity in the Reed Warbler of nesting at a distance from water has since been noticed by naturalists in other parts of the country . In 1866 I referred to a ...
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... shot at Plumpton Bosthill , near Brighton , in September , 1854 , was recorded by Mr. Borrer in the “ Zoologist " for that year ( p . 4511 ) , and was figured by Mr. Yarrell in the third edition of his " History of British Birds " ( i ...
... shot at Plumpton Bosthill , near Brighton , in September , 1854 , was recorded by Mr. Borrer in the “ Zoologist " for that year ( p . 4511 ) , and was figured by Mr. Yarrell in the third edition of his " History of British Birds " ( i ...
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... shot , the remainder do not fly in a different direction , but opening to right and left close their ranks and continue their progress as before . During this transit their proximity to the coast depends to some degree on the character ...
... shot , the remainder do not fly in a different direction , but opening to right and left close their ranks and continue their progress as before . During this transit their proximity to the coast depends to some degree on the character ...
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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