British birds
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共 31 段- It has long been the practice of our ornithologists to regar
- Hardly less diversified in form are the feet of birds. The s
- We can pass briefly over the rest of the alimentary system,
- The muscles of a bird are what is popularly known as its fle
- There is not in this song the faintest trace of plaintivenes
- The nest is placed on the ground, usually in a cavity under
- This brilliant songster arrives in this country about the mi
- This warbler arrives in England at the end of April, being l
- This bird, although by name a tit, and placed next to the ti
- The food of the nuthatch during a greater portion of the yea
- The rock-pipit is the only songster that inhabits the seasho
- The little creeper appears to move more in a groove than alm
- The chaffinch makes the most of his song. He appears, indeed
- The buntings--all those included in the genus Emberiza--diff
- The jay is nearly equal to the daw in size, and has a varieg
- The birds usually return to the rookery in February, and in
- The present species is less common than the green woodpecker
- The barn-owl takes up his abode by preference in a building
- Upper parts reddish brown; the feathers with pale edges, tho
- The young are said not to assume the adult or breeding pluma
- The brent goose arrives in our islands in the autumn, and re
- The shoveler is the handsomest of the British freshwater duc
- The smew, or nun, as it is sometimes called, is usually plac
- A peculiar interest attaches to this bird on account of its
- Mr. Trevor-Battye thus describes the nesting habits of the s
- Nocturnal in its habits, the woodcock spends the daylight ho
- The common sandpiper, known also as the summer snipe, is a s
- ROSEATE TERN (ADULT AND IMMATURE). ⅖ NAT. SIZE.]
- Crown dusky; cheek, neck, and under parts white tinged with
- The black and white razorbill, with curiously shaped massive
- ---- Squacco, 226