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Identifier: gamebirdsshooti00mill (find matches)
Title: Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931
Subjects: Grouse Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: London : H. Sotheran
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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OUOLSK 151 a (irouse, wliidi has Ixyjii the case with every other birdsupposed to have l^een the said cross that I have examined.This instance, liowever. so fully carries out the naturalinferences that a natiirahst woidd foijii in his mind ofwhat such a cross woidd resemble, that it must beextremely ditHcult even f(jr the most astute to give adecided opinion as to what the specimen really is. Ptarmioaii and Grouse, although at times found on thesame tiround, iiotal)ly in autumn and winter, have theirseparate elevations to which they adhere more or lessclosely as the season and weather permit; l)ut during thespring, when pairing is going on, and the weather is fine,Grouse are all mated and settled in the vicinitv of theirnesting-places long before the Ptarmigan think of hohlingtheir matutinal levee for similar purposes, for during thisseason the two species keep very closely to tlieii* respectivehomes aii<l have therefore but little chance of meeting,l^efcnc da\break the Ptarmioan c

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  • bookyear:1894
  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Millais__John_Guille__1865_1931
  • booksubject:Grouse
  • booksubject:Game_and_game_birds
  • booksubject:Hunting
  • bookpublisher:London___H__Sotheran
  • bookcontributor:University_of_British_Columbia_Library
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