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Title: Nature and sport in Britain
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bryden, H. A. (Henry Anderson), 1854-1937
Subjects: Horses Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: London : G. Richards
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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the showmans art in theseholocausts of game. The range of our British partridge (Perdix cinered)is a very wide one, extending as it does from Scandi-navia to Spain and southern Italy, while eastward thebird is found through Asia Minor and Persia as fareven as the Altai Mountains of North-Central Asia. One is often asked the weight of the common part- 281 NATURE AND SPORT IN BRITAIN ridge. From 12 to 13 ounces may be said to be aboutthe average of a well-grown bird of the year in goodcondition. Occasional specimens will not infrequentlyexceed this weight, and there are records of birdsattaining as much as 16 and 17 ounces. The averageweight of a Frenchman, or red-legged partridge,is from 16 to 18 ounces, and birds of this species havebeen shot which scaled as much as 22, 23, and even 25ounces. A 25-ounce partridge is, even for a French-man, an enormous bird. Such an one was, however,shot at Hanworth, in Norfolk, in or about the year 1881,and its claim to a record duly established. 282
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From a photograph by C. Howard.NEST AND EGGS OF RING-PLOVER: SUSSEX COAST. Platk XXIV. CHAPTER XXIXSPRING AND AUTUMN BY THE SHORE Signs of spring—Tlie ring-plover—Wheatears—Arrival of nightingales—A strange resting-place—Dunlin—Far migrants—Sandpipers andtheir kinsfolk—Turnstones—The grey plover—A day of perfection—Early autumn—Grey phalaropes—Shadows and reflections—Smallshore birds—Curlew-sandpiper—Mallards—The black tern. SPRING is Upon the shore undoubtedly. Youmay tell it by a score of signs. Yonder elegantlittle ring-plover, running with dazzling feet into theremnants of the last wavelet that washed the smooth,tawny sand, displays it in the shining splendourof his breeding apparel. His grey-brown upperplumage, his neck-rings and head-markings, spotlessunder parts, orange feet and bill, both black-tipped,are all wonderfully perfect—immaculate. Just now heis restless, not caring to stay long upon the sands.His wife is nesting away yonder among t

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