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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... hatched out , and the young reared , by the foster parents . The nests in which the Cuckoo's eggs are most frequently deposited are those of the Hedge Sparrow , Meadow Pipit , Pied Wagtail , and Reed Warbler , but according to Dr. Thie ...
... hatched out , and the young reared , by the foster parents . The nests in which the Cuckoo's eggs are most frequently deposited are those of the Hedge Sparrow , Meadow Pipit , Pied Wagtail , and Reed Warbler , but according to Dr. Thie ...
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... hatched and cared for ? If not ( and I believe such an event is not usual , if indeed it has ever been known to occur ) , then nothing has been gained by the selection of a Reed Wren's or Titlark's nest ( as the case may be ) , and the ...
... hatched and cared for ? If not ( and I believe such an event is not usual , if indeed it has ever been known to occur ) , then nothing has been gained by the selection of a Reed Wren's or Titlark's nest ( as the case may be ) , and the ...
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... hatched by other birds , but they mingled fact with fable , believing , or at all events asserting , that the young Cuckoo devoured not only its foster brothers and sisters , but ultimately its foster parents . Hence the expression ...
... hatched by other birds , but they mingled fact with fable , believing , or at all events asserting , that the young Cuckoo devoured not only its foster brothers and sisters , but ultimately its foster parents . Hence the expression ...
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... hatched , in the act of turning out the young Hedge - Sparrow . The little animal , with the assistance of its rump and wings , contrived to get the bird upon its back , and making a lodgement for its burden by ele- vating its elbows ...
... hatched , in the act of turning out the young Hedge - Sparrow . The little animal , with the assistance of its rump and wings , contrived to get the bird upon its back , and making a lodgement for its burden by ele- vating its elbows ...
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... hatched with three young Titlarks on the 6th June . " On the afternoon of the 10th two of the Tit- larks were found lying dead at the bottom of the ditch ; the other one had disappeared . " Subsequently this Cuckoo was removed , and ...
... hatched with three young Titlarks on the 6th June . " On the afternoon of the 10th two of the Tit- larks were found lying dead at the bottom of the ditch ; the other one had disappeared . " Subsequently this Cuckoo was removed , and ...
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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