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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... song be heard , all doubts would at once be set at rest , for as a warbler it is far superior to any of the three species just mentioned . I have had many opportunities 1 See Professor Newton's edition of Yarrell's " History of British ...
... song be heard , all doubts would at once be set at rest , for as a warbler it is far superior to any of the three species just mentioned . I have had many opportunities 1 See Professor Newton's edition of Yarrell's " History of British ...
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... song . Frequently I contrived to get within a few feet of it , and could almost see the notes as they poured out of its tiny throat . The eggs when fresh are the most lovely imaginable , being of a bright pink with dark purple spots ...
... song . Frequently I contrived to get within a few feet of it , and could almost see the notes as they poured out of its tiny throat . The eggs when fresh are the most lovely imaginable , being of a bright pink with dark purple spots ...
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... song . When the young are hatched the males leave off singing , and busy themselves in bringing food to the nest . The song generally ceases before the end of the first week in June . Occasionally , however , I have heard a Nightingale ...
... song . When the young are hatched the males leave off singing , and busy themselves in bringing food to the nest . The song generally ceases before the end of the first week in June . Occasionally , however , I have heard a Nightingale ...
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... song birds very few , comparatively , have the ear to distinguish a song unless they can see the author of it . Hence it frequently happens that they listen to a Thrush or Blackcap in the early spring , and immediately inform their ...
... song birds very few , comparatively , have the ear to distinguish a song unless they can see the author of it . Hence it frequently happens that they listen to a Thrush or Blackcap in the early spring , and immediately inform their ...
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... song marks them at once as the prey of the profes- sional bird - catcher , and during the month of April immense numbers are taken daily . The Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are also sought after as cage - birds , but not to. IVE ...
... song marks them at once as the prey of the profes- sional bird - catcher , and during the month of April immense numbers are taken daily . The Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat are also sought after as cage - birds , but not to. IVE ...
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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