Grouse Disease: Its Causes and RemediesW.H. Allen, 1883 - 182 páginas |
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... facts may be taken as a sample of the effects resulting from the growing taste for Highland life and Highland sports . A glance ... fact , shootings and deer - forests make up a DEMAND FOR HIGHLAND SHOOTINGS . 7 very considerable portion of.
... facts may be taken as a sample of the effects resulting from the growing taste for Highland life and Highland sports . A glance ... fact , shootings and deer - forests make up a DEMAND FOR HIGHLAND SHOOTINGS . 7 very considerable portion of.
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... fact that , when out shooting , they usually find grouse in thick cover . This is easily accounted for . Birds always run into the best shelter on the first alarm given by the distant shot . They have an instinctive dread of the gun ...
... fact that , when out shooting , they usually find grouse in thick cover . This is easily accounted for . Birds always run into the best shelter on the first alarm given by the distant shot . They have an instinctive dread of the gun ...
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... fact that all the sheep in the neighbourhood rush to the burnt heather ? -Before burning his hill you would see but an old bird , or a very few , just one here and there , and most of them old cocks ; but the next year after the burning ...
... fact that all the sheep in the neighbourhood rush to the burnt heather ? -Before burning his hill you would see but an old bird , or a very few , just one here and there , and most of them old cocks ; but the next year after the burning ...
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... fact , I burn extensively , and the birds have been doubled on that land since I have had the shooting . My ground being low , at the end of the season they come down in very great numbers from the higher ground to my ground . " And the ...
... fact , I burn extensively , and the birds have been doubled on that land since I have had the shooting . My ground being low , at the end of the season they come down in very great numbers from the higher ground to my ground . " And the ...
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... fact that , if these birds were annihilated , small indeed would be the quantity of cereals , roots , or fruit that would arrive at maturity . We know districts where " bird - murder " had been carried on to such an extent that there ...
... fact that , if these birds were annihilated , small indeed would be the quantity of cereals , roots , or fruit that would arrive at maturity . We know districts where " bird - murder " had been carried on to such an extent that there ...
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Grouse Disease: Its Cause and Remedies Duncan George Forbes 1823?-1 MacDonald Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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Aberdeenshire agricultural animals appearance balance of nature beasts of prey beautiful birds and beasts birds of prey BLACK GROUSE brace breed British burning burnt Caithness capercailzie cause of grouse Cobbold cock colour common buzzard creatures crops deer deer-forests destroy destruction districts doubt drainage eggs entozoa epidemic exceedingly exterminate farming feed forests gamekeepers glens golden eagle ground grouse disease hares hatched hawks healthy heath heather HEATHER-BURNING Highland hundred pounds Inverness keepers kestrel killed land Macdonald Mark Milbank mountain Nairnshire naturalists nest never numbers observed old heather opinion over-stocking parasites partridges peregrine falcon Perthshire pheasant plumage proprietors protection rabbits rats red grouse rents rooks Ross-shire Scotland season sheep farmer shillings shooting shot small birds sparrow sparrow-hawk species sport sportsmen stoat strongles Sutherland tapeworm tenants theory thousand pounds unwholesome food vermin weasels wild birds wings winter worms yellow young birds young heather
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Página 169 - Gave wealth to sway the mind with double force. Have we not seen, round Britain's peopled shore, Her useful sons exchanged for useless ore? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, Like flaring tapers brightening as they waste; Seen opulence, her grandeur to maintain, Lead stern depopulation in her train, And over fields where scatter'd hamlets rose, In barren solitary pomp repose?
Página 3 - Hie away, hie away, Over bank and over brae, Where the copsewood is the greenest, Where the fountains glisten sheenest, Where the lady-fern grows strongest, Where the morning dew lies longest, Where the black-cock sweetest sips it, Where the fairy latest trips it. Hie to haunts right seldom seen, Lovely, lonesome, cool, and green, Over bank and over brae, Hie away, hie away. 'Do the verses he sings...
Página 19 - Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another's mind, While the touch of Nature's art Harmonizes heart to heart.
Página 58 - High from the summit of a craggy cliff, Hung o'er the deep, such as amazing frowns On utmost Kilda's * shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong pounc'd, and ardent with paternal fire.
Página 42 - The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
Página 59 - Kilda's shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire. Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstained, he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.