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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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y frequentat certain hours of the day and the direction of theirretreat if flushed. For this reason it is by no means anunusual sight to see the Golden Eagle (generally the malebird) doing a little amateur driving on his own accountand that of his spouse. This may be described as follows :while the hen bird takes her post on some overhanging rockon the face of a hill or exit of a corrie, the cock sails awayliiofh in the air till he has reached the end of the o-roundthat he intends to beat; he then descends and proceedsto systematically range the rocks up and down as regularlyas a setter, in the direction of his mate. Game is soon PTAKMIOAX 101 fouiicl, ami instead of <;iH(kly droppiii*^ on to tlie quarn,which is their usual haljit when hunting for themselves,he makes a sudden feint and gets his terrified victims onthe wing at onee, after wliicli he can always force two ovthree l)ir<ls in the re(;uired direction hy keeping justbehind and ImIow tlicni. Although the Eagle, in point
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HUNTED. of dexterity and swiftness, is Imt ii clumsy performer inthe art of slaughter eompared with the Peregrine andother Faleons, yet he can generally effect his purpose hykeeping the (juarry moving forward and preventing someat least from taking sudden downward headers into asnowdrift or chasm, where they would undoubtedlv escape.Til us he keeps up with their low scurrying flight withslow heavy flaps of his own wings till the point is at M 1G2 GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES lenoth reached where the hen sits awaitino^ the cominorof her lord, and giving a scream or rather yelp, for it moreresembles the latter, he is immediately answered by her,and the two soon drop on their respective victims andretire to adjacent rocks on which to enjoy their meal. Of late years proprietors of deer forests having awoketo the fact that the Eagles were gradually disappearinglike so many of our indigenous birds, have justly takenevery precaution to stop their destruction. Seven or eightyears ago the

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