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A Handbook of British Inland Birds

A Handbook of British Inland Birds


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: abnormal pale blue or greenish-blue eggs occasionally laid by birds of many species, these are merely the result of weakness or disease, as is generally shown in addition by the extreme thinness of their shell. WHITETHROAT. (Sylvia cinerea.') Nettle-creeper, Haychat.?The Whitethroat is one of the commonest of the summer birds of passage in most country districts, arriving about the third week in April, and making himself a rather conspicuous feature of the overgrown hedge- sides and bramble-patches for several weeks thereafter by his chattering little rigmarole of a song, half tuneful and half discordant, and his frequent manner of beginning it on the top or the side of the hedge, and slipping out of sight to finish it before he is half-way through. He is greyish- brown above and pale grey beneath; as his name indicates, the feathers about the throat are paler still, though they are scarcely pure white, and when he sings the expansion of the muscles gives them a peculiar bristling appearance. Until his song is learnt it is this pale and bristly little throat of his while singing which gives the best point bywhich to recognise him, though his common country name of Nettle-creeper is also very expressive of his habits. Early in May the White- throat builds a compact but rather flimsy nest of dry goose-grass and other stems, wound round and round and lined with horse-hair, low down in the thick of the brambles, nettles, and other rank verdure of his haunts. The name of Haychat, which is applied in some counties to this and the next three species indiscriminately, is derived from the materials and appearance of the nest. It is seldom more than three feet from the ground, and often close upon it. Four to six eggs are laid, with a pale hay or straw-coloured ground, freely m...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217667357
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 59
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021766735X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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