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Hugh Alexander Macpherson. AND Grouse SEAL OF THE UNI ITY OF CALIFORNIA THERE 1888 THE. UC - NRLF FUR $ B 277 007 The EATHER Series HOME LIFE . A.Thorbur. Front Cover.
Hugh Alexander Macpherson. AND Grouse SEAL OF THE UNI ITY OF CALIFORNIA THERE 1888 THE. UC - NRLF FUR $ B 277 007 The EATHER Series HOME LIFE . A.Thorbur. Front Cover.
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... front of him get past him as noiselessly as possible , and as you peep over the ridge have your gun absolutely ready , and look out for a rise directly you show your nose over it . You will , in wild weather at least , get a difficult ...
... front of him get past him as noiselessly as possible , and as you peep over the ridge have your gun absolutely ready , and look out for a rise directly you show your nose over it . You will , in wild weather at least , get a difficult ...
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... front , and vanishing like lightning over the grey knoll behind , yet always making for the same place , until you find by experience that , in proportion to the birds upon the moor , your rock or ravine drive is always one of the best ...
... front , and vanishing like lightning over the grey knoll behind , yet always making for the same place , until you find by experience that , in proportion to the birds upon the moor , your rock or ravine drive is always one of the best ...
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... front of them to see the birds coming . I have never seen a successful drive where it was attempted to push birds up wind to butts on a ridge , though it can be done with the wind . Again , though it is a very pretty sight to observe ...
... front of them to see the birds coming . I have never seen a successful drive where it was attempted to push birds up wind to butts on a ridge , though it can be done with the wind . Again , though it is a very pretty sight to observe ...
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... front to be ready , select your bird , and get the gun up is all you want , and for this eighty yards from the butt to the ridge is amply sufficient . Then each butt must if possible be placed , though always adhering to the straight ...
... front to be ready , select your bird , and get the gun up is all you want , and for this eighty yards from the butt to the ridge is amply sufficient . Then each butt must if possible be placed , though always adhering to the straight ...
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The Grouse: Natural History, by H. A. Macpherson Hugh Alexander Macpherson Visualização integral - 1894 |
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ANDREW LANG beat becking better black grouse black-game blackcock blue hares brace breeding season burn CO.'S STANDARD covey Crown 8vo eagle Edition eggs English especially favour feed female field voles firing flank flight front GEORGE SAINTSBURY glen goback grey grouse driving grouse moor gull guns heather high ground hill hooded crows Illustrations keen keep killed knoll line of butts LONGMANS & CO.'S Lord miles Millais moorland Moy Hall neighbours never Newman's Cardinal old birds old cock pack partridges peregrine plumage poacher poaching probably ptarmigan red grouse result ridge rise rock sand grouse Scotch keeper Scotch moors Scotland seen sheltered shooter shooting over dogs shot side snow sport sportsman spot stone straight things tion turn vermin vols wild willow grouse wind yards Yorkshire young birds
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