The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... once become thoroughly dry it will bear washing in water without injury . The colour of the eggs is admirably adapted for the purpose of concealment from the prying eyes of rooks , crows , and birds of prey , being very much like the ...
... once become thoroughly dry it will bear washing in water without injury . The colour of the eggs is admirably adapted for the purpose of concealment from the prying eyes of rooks , crows , and birds of prey , being very much like the ...
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Hugh Alexander Macpherson. maturity . I once asked a gamekeeper to watch half a dozen nests which were near his house . He told me that out of forty - nine eggs , he counted forty - seven chicken grouse . As soon as the young are hatched ...
Hugh Alexander Macpherson. maturity . I once asked a gamekeeper to watch half a dozen nests which were near his house . He told me that out of forty - nine eggs , he counted forty - seven chicken grouse . As soon as the young are hatched ...
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... once the grouse responded to the challenge by flying at him , coming up sideways , and using his spurs . The bird allowed itself repeatedly to be caught , and the moment he was liberated re- turned again and again to the unequal combat ...
... once the grouse responded to the challenge by flying at him , coming up sideways , and using his spurs . The bird allowed itself repeatedly to be caught , and the moment he was liberated re- turned again and again to the unequal combat ...
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... once crept within a yard or two of a beautiful peregrine , as he was perching on a crag of rock a thousand feet above the boiling waters of the Minch . He was so busily engaged in dissecting a fresh - killed skylark that he never ...
... once crept within a yard or two of a beautiful peregrine , as he was perching on a crag of rock a thousand feet above the boiling waters of the Minch . He was so busily engaged in dissecting a fresh - killed skylark that he never ...
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... Once only in all my experience did I find the foot of a grouse chick in the nest of a merlin . I wish that the poor hen- harrier could be held equally blameless . To summarise my own experience of birds of prey , I venture to say that ...
... Once only in all my experience did I find the foot of a grouse chick in the nest of a merlin . I wish that the poor hen- harrier could be held equally blameless . To summarise my own experience of birds of prey , I venture to say that ...
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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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