The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... season . Happily those evil days have well - nigh passed into oblivion . For us moderns the name of grouse has a fragrance of its own . Its bare mention suffices to set us dreaming of the fresh , breezy hillside , with its varied animal ...
... season . Happily those evil days have well - nigh passed into oblivion . For us moderns the name of grouse has a fragrance of its own . Its bare mention suffices to set us dreaming of the fresh , breezy hillside , with its varied animal ...
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... seasons , and cannot , therefore , speak of , with certainty , local results ; but I am assured that the introduction of Yorkshire grouse into Rum has greatly increased the bags obtained on that magnificent island . Messrs . IN PRAISE ...
... seasons , and cannot , therefore , speak of , with certainty , local results ; but I am assured that the introduction of Yorkshire grouse into Rum has greatly increased the bags obtained on that magnificent island . Messrs . IN PRAISE ...
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... seasons . I have no great faith , myself , in the virtue of experiments carried out on a small scale ; because introduced grouse would have , in the first instance , to fight stoutly for existence . On the other hand , a well ...
... seasons . I have no great faith , myself , in the virtue of experiments carried out on a small scale ; because introduced grouse would have , in the first instance , to fight stoutly for existence . On the other hand , a well ...
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... found that they nested and reared their young quite satisfactorily , but that they decreased in number between the breeding seasons — a fact which was doubtless due to their straying off our ground . IN PRAISE OF THE GROUSE 13.
... found that they nested and reared their young quite satisfactorily , but that they decreased in number between the breeding seasons — a fact which was doubtless due to their straying off our ground . IN PRAISE OF THE GROUSE 13.
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... seasons , and care should be taken to supply an adequate number of female birds . The latter are rather less hardy than the opposite sex , and are consequently more liable to perish on the journey than their male companions . C It has ...
... seasons , and care should be taken to supply an adequate number of female birds . The latter are rather less hardy than the opposite sex , and are consequently more liable to perish on the journey than their male companions . C It has ...
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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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