Snipe and WoodcockLongmans, Green, 1903 - 298 páginas |
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... coloured and pure white snipe have been shot , and also birds having a well - formed crest . Snipe not only vary in size as to the individual , but also as to the batch . With regard to the latter , I wrote in the ' Badminton Magazine ...
... coloured and pure white snipe have been shot , and also birds having a well - formed crest . Snipe not only vary in size as to the individual , but also as to the batch . With regard to the latter , I wrote in the ' Badminton Magazine ...
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... colouring . How thoroughly Nature studies the hues of those of her creatures whose habits or disabilities of movement would make them almost certain victims to the hunger of predaceous foes ! In the insect world we find pro- tective ...
... colouring . How thoroughly Nature studies the hues of those of her creatures whose habits or disabilities of movement would make them almost certain victims to the hunger of predaceous foes ! In the insect world we find pro- tective ...
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... colouring it was for long believed by sports- men and naturalists that there were three and even four distinct kinds of ' cock . As late as our own time the belief that there are separate species of the birds lingers in some parts of ...
... colouring it was for long believed by sports- men and naturalists that there were three and even four distinct kinds of ' cock . As late as our own time the belief that there are separate species of the birds lingers in some parts of ...
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... coloured and pure white woodcock have often been shot . The finest known specimen of the pure white bird is that preserved at Melton Constable in Norfolk , the seat of Lord Hastings . The bird was killed on the estate . The average ...
... coloured and pure white woodcock have often been shot . The finest known specimen of the pure white bird is that preserved at Melton Constable in Norfolk , the seat of Lord Hastings . The bird was killed on the estate . The average ...
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... colouring greatly assists in concealing them . The late Lord Lilford has seen a ' cock in Ireland which behaved with marvellous cunning when it heard the approach of danger . It crouched close to the ground and threw the dead oak ...
... colouring greatly assists in concealing them . The late Lord Lilford has seen a ' cock in Ireland which behaved with marvellous cunning when it heard the approach of danger . It crouched close to the ground and threw the dead oak ...
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