The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... killing them — not omitting the methods em- ployed by the poacher - will be explained with special regard to modern developments , and they will only be left when on the table in the most appetising forms which the delicate science of ...
... killing them — not omitting the methods em- ployed by the poacher - will be explained with special regard to modern developments , and they will only be left when on the table in the most appetising forms which the delicate science of ...
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... killed the ' pootes ' as well as the parent bird in the nesting season . Happily those evil days have well - nigh passed into oblivion . For us moderns the name of grouse has a fragrance of its own . Its bare mention suffices to set us ...
... killed the ' pootes ' as well as the parent bird in the nesting season . Happily those evil days have well - nigh passed into oblivion . For us moderns the name of grouse has a fragrance of its own . Its bare mention suffices to set us ...
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... kill willow grouse to their heart's content ; but the grouse holds a unique position in the affections of most British sportsmen ; all the more , perhaps , since it is essentially an insular production , and cannot be met with out of ...
... kill willow grouse to their heart's content ; but the grouse holds a unique position in the affections of most British sportsmen ; all the more , perhaps , since it is essentially an insular production , and cannot be met with out of ...
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... killed ; but as the dog still held , they correctly inferred that there was probably another bird left , which proved to be the case . This happened to be the tame grouse , whose presence was quite unexpected , and who considered being ...
... killed ; but as the dog still held , they correctly inferred that there was probably another bird left , which proved to be the case . This happened to be the tame grouse , whose presence was quite unexpected , and who considered being ...
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... kill- ing himself with the impetuosity of his flight . Individuals of the male sex appear to predominate in most birds ... killed near Pitlochry in four days in 1893 , as many as 120 were cock birds.1 This , of course , is an exceptional ...
... kill- ing himself with the impetuosity of his flight . Individuals of the male sex appear to predominate in most birds ... killed near Pitlochry in four days in 1893 , as many as 120 were cock birds.1 This , of course , is an exceptional ...
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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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