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Title: Birds through the year
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Thomas, William Beach, Sir, 1868-1957 Collet, Anthony Keeling, 1877-
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Pictorial works
Publisher: London, Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, ltd
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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, belonging like the heather indisseverablyto the hill. He does, in fact, so belong in a very realsense. The red grouse is the one exclusively British bird.The one food on which he flourishes is the purple heather,and if the succulent shoots are not there at the due seasonhe dies, as the young wild-duck die, when hatched beforethe insects have multiplied. He seems, too, to keep some-thing of both the rich and dusky colours of the heath:he is subdued to that he works in. The willow grouseof other countries and the ptarmigan, that love the heights,change their heather colours for the snow colours. Butthe grouse is always constant to the tawny shades of themoor. No signal of the seasons is obeyed with such headlongpromptitude as the coming of August. Under the dark andgrimy canopy of glass on a North London terminus you mayinfer the season with more certainty than most expertnaturalists in the country. The war with the grouse is theoccasion, but no one who has ever escaped from the stale
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BLUE TIT ABOUT TO FEED (TS NESTLINGS.By A. W. Seaby. THE ENDED TRUCE 225 heat of a big town one August day, and awaked the nextmorning within call of the grouse, will believe that sport isthe master cause of this exodus. What is it steels the sportsmans heart?It is the conscious pride of art. No one can with honesty deny the power of sport overEnglish people ; and grouse-driving probably comes first inattractiveness and reputation. But August is a period when

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