... or destroyed. This flight must have been immense in quantity, as its extent was traced through the whole length of the coasts of Northumberland and Durham. There appears little doubt of this having been a migration from the more northern provinces... Illustrations of British Ornithology - Página 194por Prideaux John Selby - 1833 - 538 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1840 - 488 páginas
...migration from the more northern provinces of Europe, (probably the pine forests of Norway and Sweden,) from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous...large flights of the woodcock, fieldfare, and redwing. (See Selby's Brit. Ornithol.) What can be more graceful in its actions, more pleasing in its colours,... | |
| Moses Aaron Richardson - 1843 - 444 páginas
...of east), thousands of that handsome little bird, the Golden Crested Regulus (Reguluz Auricapillm), were seen to arrive upon the sea-shore and sand-banks...large flights of the Woodcock, Fieldfare, and Redwing. A more extraordinary circumstance in the economy of this bird took place during the same winter, viz.... | |
| Moses Aaron Richardson - 1843 - 446 páginas
...of east), thousands of that handsome little bird, the Golden Crested Regulus (Regulus Auricapillm), were seen to arrive upon the sea-shore and sand-banks...large flights of the Woodcock, Fieldfare, and Redwing. A more extraordinary circumstance in the economy of this bird took place during the same winter, viz.... | |
| 1859 - 634 páginas
...the more northern provinces of Europe (probably furnished by the pine forests of Norway and Sweden), from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous...flights of the woodcock, fieldfare, and redwing." Similar influxes of the goldcreet ore elsewhere on record. But what excite« our wonder is that a little,... | |
| 1864 - 548 páginas
...been a migration from the more northern provinces of Europe (probably furnished by the pine forests of Norway, Sweden, &c.), from the circumstance of...of the woodcock, fieldfare and redwing. Although I bad never before witnessed the actual arrival of the goldcrested regulus, I had long felt convinced,... | |
| 1864 - 544 páginas
...more northern provinces of Europe (probably furnished by the pine forests of Norway, Sweden, Sec.), from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous...of the woodcock, fieldfare and redwing. Although I bad never before witnessed the actual arrival of the goldcresled regulus, I had long felt convinced,... | |
| Henry Stevenson - 1866 - 542 páginas
...been a migration from the more northern provinces of Europe (probably furnished by the pine forests of Norway, Sweden, &c.), from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous with that of great flights of the woodcock, fieldfare, and redwing." The occurrence of large flights in a similar... | |
| John Gould - 1873 - 172 páginas
...great numbers were in consequence caught or destroyed. The flight must have been immense in number, as its extent was traced through the •whole length...that of large flights of the Woodcock, Fieldfare, and Itedwing," Woodcocks, we know, generally arrive in fair condition on our north-eastern shores at dawn,... | |
| John Hogg (publisher.) - 1878 - 536 páginas
...furnished by the pine forests of Norway and Sweden), from the circumstance of its arrival having been simultaneous with that of large flights of the woodcock,...sudden increase of the species during the autumnal and winter months, that our indigenous birds must be augmented by a body of strangers making these shores... | |
| Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 páginas
...been a migration from the more northern provinces of Europe (probably furnished by the pine forests of Norway, Sweden, &c.), from the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous with that of large nights of the woodcock, fieldfare, and redwing. Although I had never before witnessed the actual arrival... | |
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