Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British IslandsBickers and Son, 1875 - 336 páginas |
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... Willow Wren , is much shorter and paler . The legs of the Wood Warbler and Willow Wren are brownish flesh - colour , while those of the Chiff - chaff are dark brown . After the first moult , the young of all three species are much ...
... Willow Wren , is much shorter and paler . The legs of the Wood Warbler and Willow Wren are brownish flesh - colour , while those of the Chiff - chaff are dark brown . After the first moult , the young of all three species are much ...
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... Willow Wren picking the green aphis off a standard rose - tree , and have been as much astonished at the quan- tity which it consumed as at the rapidity of the consumption . The Wood Warbler is not nearly so sociable as either the Willow ...
... Willow Wren picking the green aphis off a standard rose - tree , and have been as much astonished at the quan- tity which it consumed as at the rapidity of the consumption . The Wood Warbler is not nearly so sociable as either the Willow ...
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... Willow Wren invariably makes use of feathers for this purpose , but the Wood Warbler does not . The nest of the latter is composed entirely of dry grass and leaves , occasionally mixed with a little moss ; and although I have sometimes ...
... Willow Wren invariably makes use of feathers for this purpose , but the Wood Warbler does not . The nest of the latter is composed entirely of dry grass and leaves , occasionally mixed with a little moss ; and although I have sometimes ...
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... Willow Wrens , they were all the common Sylvia trochilus . That the bird is Irish I am sure , for I have heard it ... Warbler being found northward to the middle districts of Scot- land , a circumstance which appears to have been ...
... Willow Wrens , they were all the common Sylvia trochilus . That the bird is Irish I am sure , for I have heard it ... Warbler being found northward to the middle districts of Scot- land , a circumstance which appears to have been ...
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... and southward to Algeria , Egypt and Abyssinia . It arrives in this country generally about the middle of April , and leaves again in September . 145 THE WILLOW WARBLER . THE more generally distributed than THE WOOD WARBLER . 23.
... and southward to Algeria , Egypt and Abyssinia . It arrives in this country generally about the middle of April , and leaves again in September . 145 THE WILLOW WARBLER . THE more generally distributed than THE WOOD WARBLER . 23.
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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 Sussex Swallow Swift tail throughout tion Tree Pipit trees Wheatear Whinchat Willow Warbler Willow Wren wind wing winter quarters Wood Warbler Yarrell Yellow Wagtail Zoologist