The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... heather . Considering how widely the term grouse circulates , there is a certain quaintness in the fact that the word is not a British one at all , but only an addition to our language and of doubtful origin . Our forefathers borrowed ...
... heather . Considering how widely the term grouse circulates , there is a certain quaintness in the fact that the word is not a British one at all , but only an addition to our language and of doubtful origin . Our forefathers borrowed ...
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... heather and -iar = a hen ; but the suggestion has not met with favour . If the origin of grouse , however , be somewhat perplexing -- and I for one should be very thankful for further light upon the subject — it must be allowed that the ...
... heather and -iar = a hen ; but the suggestion has not met with favour . If the origin of grouse , however , be somewhat perplexing -- and I for one should be very thankful for further light upon the subject — it must be allowed that the ...
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... heather - cock , and Cearc Fhraoich the heather- hen . It is also called Ian Fraoich = the heather - bird . The term most employed , at any rate in Skye , is the Cearc Fhraoich . The red grouse is not limited in its distribution to the ...
... heather - cock , and Cearc Fhraoich the heather- hen . It is also called Ian Fraoich = the heather - bird . The term most employed , at any rate in Skye , is the Cearc Fhraoich . The red grouse is not limited in its distribution to the ...
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... heather all over instead of in suit- able strips . Another difficulty in Shetland , as in very many places , is the great abundance of the hooded crow and other vermin . Mr. Raeburn thinks that the peninsula of Röness on the mainland ...
... heather all over instead of in suit- able strips . Another difficulty in Shetland , as in very many places , is the great abundance of the hooded crow and other vermin . Mr. Raeburn thinks that the peninsula of Röness on the mainland ...
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... heather of the lonelier glens ; and I , for one , am obliged to confess that our national scenery exercises a stronger spell over my imagination than the beauties of Switzerland Much or the gloomy grandeur of the fiords of Western Nor ...
... heather of the lonelier glens ; and I , for one , am obliged to confess that our national scenery exercises a stronger spell over my imagination than the beauties of Switzerland Much or the gloomy grandeur of the fiords of Western Nor ...
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The Grouse: Natural History, by H. A. Macpherson Hugh Alexander Macpherson Visualização integral - 1894 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
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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