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Identifier: gamebirdsshootin00mill (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: Smithsonian Libraries
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GltOUSE (Lagopus scoticas) FULL PAGE Grouse-shooting . Grouse resting Grouse disturbed Grouse-driving The Fringe of the Moor Gr ouse pairing in the Spring 110114117129149 IN THE TEXT Here they come . . . . The Hidden Hand .... The Appearance of the Peregrine . Embarras de Richesses . A Snijjy one under the Kite The Double Feather found in Game Birds Showing manner in which the Claws are cast An Old Highlander from Sutherland Melanism ....... Hybrid between a Grouse and Bantam FowlTailpiece ....... Ill123125126136 138 141142146152 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PTAEMIGAN (LagopiLs mutus) FULL PAGE Showing Stages in every I\ronth in the Year (two plates)A Highland Pastoral ...... Snowy Corries (Black Mount) .... Above Loch j\Iaree (Ptarmigan-Shooting) PAGE 154, 157. 165. 172. 180 IX THE TEXT Illustration commencing Ptarmigan Hunted The Fatal Shadow Mode of trapping Ptarmigan Supposed Hybrid between Ptarmigan and Grouse Tailpiece—A Day in the Woods at Murthly (Oct. 20, 1888) 155161169175183185
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CAPERCAILLIE APERCAILLIE, notwith-standing the improvementsin shootino- and modern o shot-o;mis, now that thevhave become one of ourbirds of the chase, seem tobe still slowly and steadilyincreasing, and in most ofthe places which may beregarded as their home inthis country hard shooting,at any rate, does not seemto diminish their numbers.For though a great many, mostly hens, are annually killedin the low-lying woods of Perthshire and Stirlingshire,their places are generally filled up the following spring bybirds which come down from the rocky hills that may benear and from places which will not admit of successfuldriving, of which there are many in these counties.Perthshire, Stirlingshire, and Forfarshire seem to be thecounties in Scotland most suited to the habits of thismagnificent bird, a few being found in Aberdeenshire, B

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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:Smithsonian_Institution_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian
  • bookleafnumber:21
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
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