Bird Hunting on the White Nile: A Naturalist’s Experiences in the Soudan (1902)
Witherby, Harry F. · The Office of Knowledge (London) · leaf 74
9 ae cl “Reed Warbler and Marsh Warbler. 71 Praia, they were not in song, nor did we hear them utter even a call note, so that there was nothing to differentiate them except their size or plumage. But in size they are exactly the same, while even with the two birds side by side in the hand their… … similar that no one but an expert would detect the difference. It was most interesting to come across birds with which one was familiar in England in their winter resorts or on their migrations so far to the south. The extraordinary power of the migrating impulse was brought vividly home to me by…
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