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... Books on sport , again , seldom treat at length of the Natural History of the creatures which are shot or otherwise taken ; and , so far as the Editor is aware , in no book hitherto published on Natural History or Sport has in ...
... Books on sport , again , seldom treat at length of the Natural History of the creatures which are shot or otherwise taken ; and , so far as the Editor is aware , in no book hitherto published on Natural History or Sport has in ...
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... book two birds are in- cluded . Their origin is traced , their birth and breeding described , every known method of cir- cumventing and killing them not omitting the methods employed by the poacher - is explained with special regard to ...
... book two birds are in- cluded . Their origin is traced , their birth and breeding described , every known method of cir- cumventing and killing them not omitting the methods employed by the poacher - is explained with special regard to ...
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... book . While the full snipe moves like lightning when on the wing , the jack snipe's flight is but one degree removed from sluggish . The jack seems to have no fear , and never to be in a hurry . Rising without a sound - the bird is ...
... book . While the full snipe moves like lightning when on the wing , the jack snipe's flight is but one degree removed from sluggish . The jack seems to have no fear , and never to be in a hurry . Rising without a sound - the bird is ...
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... book de- voted to snipe shooting . The snipe is both solitary and gregarious . At times we may meet with nothing but single birds or at most small parties of two or three or three or four ; at other times we may find all the birds in ...
... book de- voted to snipe shooting . The snipe is both solitary and gregarious . At times we may meet with nothing but single birds or at most small parties of two or three or three or four ; at other times we may find all the birds in ...
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... Book of the Earl of Northumberland for the year 1512. The book records that snypes were bought at the rate of threepence a dozen . I wish I could buy them at threepence a dozen now ! ' A rather strange performance , gone through by the ...
... Book of the Earl of Northumberland for the year 1512. The book records that snypes were bought at the rate of threepence a dozen . I wish I could buy them at threepence a dozen now ! ' A rather strange performance , gone through by the ...
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