The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... STOCK , AND POACHING VI . THE FRINGE OF THE MOOR ' VII . RECORDS AND REMARKS PAGE 3 19 41 56 65 . 83 102 . 120 • 172 217 237 253 COOKERY OF THE GROUSE 267 BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. J. STUART - WORTLEY AND A. THORBURN.
... STOCK , AND POACHING VI . THE FRINGE OF THE MOOR ' VII . RECORDS AND REMARKS PAGE 3 19 41 56 65 . 83 102 . 120 • 172 217 237 253 COOKERY OF THE GROUSE 267 BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. J. STUART - WORTLEY AND A. THORBURN.
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... moors from which to draw the rates which go to support school boards and other luxuries exacted by the oppressive ... moor . Until then the bird had existed only on sufferance , persecuted by many enemies and little cared for by ...
... moors from which to draw the rates which go to support school boards and other luxuries exacted by the oppressive ... moor . Until then the bird had existed only on sufferance , persecuted by many enemies and little cared for by ...
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... moor - fowl , moor - game , moor - cock , or muir - fowl , and preserves these titles at the present day in many districts of both England and Scotland . Willughby called it the red game , and very properly . But the plural word grice ...
... moor - fowl , moor - game , moor - cock , or muir - fowl , and preserves these titles at the present day in many districts of both England and Scotland . Willughby called it the red game , and very properly . But the plural word grice ...
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... Moor - cock , the hen the More - hen , the brood Gorfowl . Heath - cock is also a name common to this with the precedent . Turner's More - hen is the female of the precedent or Blackcock . Gor in the north of England signifies red , so ...
... Moor - cock , the hen the More - hen , the brood Gorfowl . Heath - cock is also a name common to this with the precedent . Turner's More - hen is the female of the precedent or Blackcock . Gor in the north of England signifies red , so ...
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... moors . In Skye we per- sistently trap and poison these arch robbers , but we cannot get entirely rid of them , because a ... moor - fowl as food for their young . Of late years , several efforts have been made to naturalise grouse in ...
... moors . In Skye we per- sistently trap and poison these arch robbers , but we cannot get entirely rid of them , because a ... moor - fowl as food for their young . Of late years , several efforts have been made to naturalise grouse in ...
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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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