Grouse Disease: Its Causes and RemediesW.H. Allen, 1883 - 182 páginas |
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... present day would cut but a sorry figure if they were not led up to the game . It is indeed a sad thing to see the old English and Scottish love for the sport degenerating into the spiritless diversion of battue shooting . Murder most ...
... present day would cut but a sorry figure if they were not led up to the game . It is indeed a sad thing to see the old English and Scottish love for the sport degenerating into the spiritless diversion of battue shooting . Murder most ...
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... present that the attraction will soon pall . The wealthy class who delight in the hills and valleys , streams , lakes , and purple heather appear year by year to augment the number . We deem grouse- shooting and deer - stalking the ...
... present that the attraction will soon pall . The wealthy class who delight in the hills and valleys , streams , lakes , and purple heather appear year by year to augment the number . We deem grouse- shooting and deer - stalking the ...
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... present farm ? -No ; I am prohibited to one - seventh part , which is quite sufficient . " Can you speak personally that the grouse have increased since you took your own farm ? -Yes , they have increased greatly since I took the farm ...
... present farm ? -No ; I am prohibited to one - seventh part , which is quite sufficient . " Can you speak personally that the grouse have increased since you took your own farm ? -Yes , they have increased greatly since I took the farm ...
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... in reference to the fox : - " In our present list it must appear as an enemy , although numerous and warm controversies have taken place as to its game - destroying powers . No doubt , the fox 74 THE FOX . may be preserved in the same.
... in reference to the fox : - " In our present list it must appear as an enemy , although numerous and warm controversies have taken place as to its game - destroying powers . No doubt , the fox 74 THE FOX . may be preserved in the same.
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... present time Lord Middleton is paying for the destruction of seven hundred or eight hundred , and sometimes as many as one thousand five hundred , rats per month ; he attributes that , as I certainly do , to the almost entire extinction ...
... present time Lord Middleton is paying for the destruction of seven hundred or eight hundred , and sometimes as many as one thousand five hundred , rats per month ; he attributes that , as I certainly do , to the almost entire extinction ...
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Grouse Disease: Its Cause and Remedies Duncan George Forbes 1823?-1 MacDonald Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
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.