A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged
CHAPTER III.
The Alps in June.
The Alpine pastures in June—Ornithologists and the Alps—Johann Anderegg, a peasant naturalist—Number of species in Switzerland; abundance of food—Migration, complete and partial—The Alps how far a barrier to migrating birds—The three ornithological regions of Switzerland; migrations within them—Stanz-stadt and its reed-bed—Valley of the Aa—White Wagtail and Black Redstart—The Swallow family—The Alps proper and their birds; Water-pipit, etc.—Citril Finch at the Engstlen Alp—Snow-finches—Rock-creeper; its habits—Birds of the pine-forests; Woodpeckers, Tit-mice—Crested Tit in the Gentelthal—Bonelli’s Warbler at Meiringen 68