The GrouseAshford, 1894 - 293 páginas |
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... wild population that hold their own among the pathless hills , this for the naturalist is a feast of intellect . Now it is an old male capercailzie whose fine bold form appears suddenly upon the scene , as he speeds through the top of a ...
... wild population that hold their own among the pathless hills , this for the naturalist is a feast of intellect . Now it is an old male capercailzie whose fine bold form appears suddenly upon the scene , as he speeds through the top of a ...
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... wild birds , and , what is more , is thoroughly versed in the subject -- had a nest of grouse eggs hatched out under a hen - this on the same ground where his young pheasants were being reared . When first out of the egg the young ...
... wild birds , and , what is more , is thoroughly versed in the subject -- had a nest of grouse eggs hatched out under a hen - this on the same ground where his young pheasants were being reared . When first out of the egg the young ...
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... wild bird to come down off the moor , and this bird is now fairly tame - that is to say , he will let one get within a few yards of him . When , by the way , it pleased Master Grouse to join us out shooting , if by chance a spaniel came ...
... wild bird to come down off the moor , and this bird is now fairly tame - that is to say , he will let one get within a few yards of him . When , by the way , it pleased Master Grouse to join us out shooting , if by chance a spaniel came ...
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... 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 concealment , and it is ...
... 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 concealment , and it is ...
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... wild creatures that are roughly classed together as ' vermin . ' It would be a grievous sin , undoubtedly , to extirpate even vermin ' altogether . People who have no game of their own to preserve are sometimes tempted to say hard ...
... wild creatures that are roughly classed together as ' vermin . ' It would be a grievous sin , undoubtedly , to extirpate even vermin ' altogether . People who have no game of their own to preserve are sometimes tempted to say hard ...
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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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