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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... wings , it bustles in and out , gesticulating loudly , and seems to live in a perpetual state of excitement . The country lads call it the " Nettle Creeper ,. ( Sylvia cinerea . ) HIS is not nearly so common a bird , nor. The Common ...
... wings , it bustles in and out , gesticulating loudly , and seems to live in a perpetual state of excitement . The country lads call it the " Nettle Creeper ,. ( Sylvia cinerea . ) HIS is not nearly so common a bird , nor. The Common ...
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... wing , sometimes returning to the branch it has just left , after the manner of a Tree Pipit , sometimes re - alighting elsewhere . The song , which is commenced on arrival , generally ceases early in the month of July . Its habits ...
... wing , sometimes returning to the branch it has just left , after the manner of a Tree Pipit , sometimes re - alighting elsewhere . The song , which is commenced on arrival , generally ceases early in the month of July . Its habits ...
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... Wing . Tarsus . 2'9 in . . · 8 in . 5 ° 2 , • 2.5 • " 2 7 י " " Independently , however , of its smaller size , the Lesser Whitethroat may be distinguished by its black ear - coverts , and by the absence of the pale rufous edgings to ...
... Wing . Tarsus . 2'9 in . . · 8 in . 5 ° 2 , • 2.5 • " 2 7 י " " Independently , however , of its smaller size , the Lesser Whitethroat may be distinguished by its black ear - coverts , and by the absence of the pale rufous edgings to ...
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... wing , or by alighting on the ground to pick up those which it has observed amongst the herbage , and on trees it flies from branch to branch . " Although generally distributed in England and Scotland , the Redstart is nowhere very ...
... wing , or by alighting on the ground to pick up those which it has observed amongst the herbage , and on trees it flies from branch to branch . " Although generally distributed in England and Scotland , the Redstart is nowhere very ...
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... . Its song , though sprightly , is weak and seldom prolonged . It is generally poured forth from some bough or other " coign of vantage , " but is occasionally uttered as the bird hovers on the wing , THE REDSTART . 77.
... . Its song , though sprightly , is weak and seldom prolonged . It is generally poured forth from some bough or other " coign of vantage , " but is occasionally uttered as the bird hovers on the wing , THE REDSTART . 77.
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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