The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... never were any there until they were introduced . Their first introduction must date back two hundred years , since Brand tells us , in 1701 , that grouse had previously been introduced into Shetland , but could not live there . They ...
... never were any there until they were introduced . Their first introduction must date back two hundred years , since Brand tells us , in 1701 , that grouse had previously been introduced into Shetland , but could not live there . They ...
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... never having visited Ireland ; but the north of England affords as fine a race of grouse as can be found anywhere in the Northern kingdom . The Pen- nine range , especially , with its infinite number of out- lying spurs , affords an ...
... never having visited Ireland ; but the north of England affords as fine a race of grouse as can be found anywhere in the Northern kingdom . The Pen- nine range , especially , with its infinite number of out- lying spurs , affords an ...
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... never sought her nest again . The eggs , fourteen in number , I have preserved . This delightful discovery , that a pair of grouse had lived all but two years on my property , and had even made a good attempt to rear a brood , made me ...
... never sought her nest again . The eggs , fourteen in number , I have preserved . This delightful discovery , that a pair of grouse had lived all but two years on my property , and had even made a good attempt to rear a brood , made me ...
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... never search for them intentionally , but only stumble upon them inci- dentally . No good sportsman would wish to organise a hunt for grouse nests . The grouse is a very par- ticular bird , and often deserts her eggs if suddenly ...
... never search for them intentionally , but only stumble upon them inci- dentally . No good sportsman would wish to organise a hunt for grouse nests . The grouse is a very par- ticular bird , and often deserts her eggs if suddenly ...
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... never become very wild . Their tameness in December is often more openly expressed than in the breeding season . Of course , nesting grouse will allow you to tread upon them in the heather rather than rise from their place of ...
... never become very wild . Their tameness in December is often more openly expressed than in the breeding season . Of course , nesting grouse will allow you to tread upon them in the heather rather than rise from their place of ...
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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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