The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... miles from Wick to fetch the tender heather shoots for the old and young grouse which had hatched out within his walls in the town.1 It is remarkable that so shy and retiring a bird as the red grouse should become extremely bold and ...
... miles from Wick to fetch the tender heather shoots for the old and young grouse which had hatched out within his walls in the town.1 It is remarkable that so shy and retiring a bird as the red grouse should become extremely bold and ...
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... mile from this spot , and having two dogs with me , it was as much as I could do to beat a hasty retreat into a thick wood , so anxious was he to have a sparring match with one or other of the dogs . ' This bird has now taken up his ...
... mile from this spot , and having two dogs with me , it was as much as I could do to beat a hasty retreat into a thick wood , so anxious was he to have a sparring match with one or other of the dogs . ' This bird has now taken up his ...
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... miles in breadth , and I have known them fly longer distances . They often cross the valley of the Tees , flying about a mile from one hillside to another . Mr. Millais observes that the usual length of a grouse's flight ranges from a ...
... miles in breadth , and I have known them fly longer distances . They often cross the valley of the Tees , flying about a mile from one hillside to another . Mr. Millais observes that the usual length of a grouse's flight ranges from a ...
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... miles across , and the birds must have come at least another mile on the Pomona side from the point where they left the moor . ' Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown states that in December 1879 a pack of grouse was seen flying south over the Moray ...
... miles across , and the birds must have come at least another mile on the Pomona side from the point where they left the moor . ' Mr. J. A. Harvie Brown states that in December 1879 a pack of grouse was seen flying south over the Moray ...
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... miles distant , but the open moors are considerably farther away . Walking near this ground , great packs of grouse would sweep overhead and pass right down the valley over the town . A field of turnips was swarming with the starving ...
... miles distant , but the open moors are considerably farther away . Walking near this ground , great packs of grouse would sweep overhead and pass right down the valley over the town . A field of turnips was swarming with the starving ...
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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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