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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... visitant both by Lord Lilford and Mr. Howard Saunders . The last - named natu- ralist says ( " Ibis , " 1871 , p . 212 ) that it nests there in May , and refers to the frequent in- equality in the size of eggs in the same nest - a ...
... visitant both by Lord Lilford and Mr. Howard Saunders . The last - named natu- ralist says ( " Ibis , " 1871 , p . 212 ) that it nests there in May , and refers to the frequent in- equality in the size of eggs in the same nest - a ...
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... visitant to East Cornwall , and says it " breeds annually in the woods at Trebartha , in North Hill , from whence specimens of its nest and eggs have been received . " " He adds also that it has once been met with near Penzance ; and ...
... visitant to East Cornwall , and says it " breeds annually in the woods at Trebartha , in North Hill , from whence specimens of its nest and eggs have been received . " " He adds also that it has once been met with near Penzance ; and ...
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... visitant to East Cornwall . It will be remarkable if this bird is not found to be common in some parts of Wales , since it not only occurs in Ireland , but is not nearly so scarce there as the observations of Mr. Thomp- son would lead ...
... visitant to East Cornwall . It will be remarkable if this bird is not found to be common in some parts of Wales , since it not only occurs in Ireland , but is not nearly so scarce there as the observations of Mr. Thomp- son would lead ...
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... visitant , arriving in May and leaving in August . In all the countries bordering the Mediterranean it appears to be well known . Mr. Saunders informs me that it is common in Spain in spring and autumn ; and Mr. Wright , referring to ...
... visitant , arriving in May and leaving in August . In all the countries bordering the Mediterranean it appears to be well known . Mr. Saunders informs me that it is common in Spain in spring and autumn ; and Mr. Wright , referring to ...
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... since it is properly re- garded as a winter visitant to this country , any lengthened description of the species , and of its haunts and habits , would be out of place here . I shall therefore merely ob- serve that 78 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
... since it is properly re- garded as a winter visitant to this country , any lengthened description of the species , and of its haunts and habits , would be out of place here . I shall therefore merely ob- serve that 78 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS .
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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