The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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Hugh Alexander Macpherson. CHAPTER I IN PRAISE OF THE GROUSE It is hardly too much to say that the Red Grouse enjoys a unique position among the members of the feathered community . Certainly no other bird exacts a similar amount of ...
Hugh Alexander Macpherson. CHAPTER I IN PRAISE OF THE GROUSE It is hardly too much to say that the Red Grouse enjoys a unique position among the members of the feathered community . Certainly no other bird exacts a similar amount of ...
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... grouse was originally the 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 ...
... grouse was originally the 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 ...
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... grouse , very variously spelt , has , curiously enough , come to be applied to the red grouse almost exclusively . It may be well to mention that some scholars have sought a derivation of grouse in the Celtic terms grug = heather and ...
... grouse , very variously spelt , has , curiously enough , come to be applied to the red grouse almost exclusively . It may be well to mention that some scholars have sought a derivation of grouse in the Celtic terms grug = heather and ...
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... red , so the Gor - Cock is the red cock , & c . For the under- standing and exact distinctions of these names we are ... grouse , I think that The Ornithology of Francis Willughby , p . 23 . ' gor ' must refer to the red plumage of 6 ...
... red , so the Gor - Cock is the red cock , & c . For the under- standing and exact distinctions of these names we are ... grouse , I think that The Ornithology of Francis Willughby , p . 23 . ' gor ' must refer to the red plumage of 6 ...
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... red grouse is not limited in its distribution to the mainland of Scotland . Wherever the common ling or heather grows most rapidly and richly , there grouse naturally most abound . The islands of Scotland are generally inferior to the ...
... red grouse is not limited in its distribution to the mainland of Scotland . Wherever the common ling or heather grows most rapidly and richly , there grouse naturally most abound . The islands of Scotland are generally inferior to the ...
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The Grouse: Natural History, by H. A. Macpherson Hugh Alexander Macpherson Visualização integral - 1894 |
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