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Title: The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries ..
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Lloyd, L. (Llewelyn), 1792?-1876
Subjects: Game and game-birds Marine animals
Publisher: London, F. Warne and co.
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season is advanced; for, ninetimes out of ten, the other birds, if there be more thanone in the tree, almost invariably take wing on hearingthe discharge of the guu. Looking on Ilazel-Hen shooting, whether in themanner described, or with the aid of a Fogel-Hund, asthe very tamest of sports, I have seldom shot these birdsunless they have crossed my path ; but I have knownothers to commit considerable execution amonost them.A man of mine, indeed, one day killed eleven Ilazel-Hens with his pea-rifle. Not a few of these birds are taken in traps andsnares, which being similar to those used for the captureof the Capercali and the Black-Cock, there is no occasionto speak further of them. The number of Hazel-IIens annually taken in Scandi-navia is something enormous. Brunius, in his Hand-Lexicoii, published in 1798, calculated that 60,000 wereyearly consumed in Stockholm alone, and 40,000 morein other parts of the country. At the present day thatnumber is, beyond doubt, very greatly exceeded.
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< D P< in CHAPTEE IX. The Dal-Eipa.—Where found. — Description. — Plumage. — Moulting. —Kesembles the Scotch Grouse—Resorts.—Food^Feeds at Night.—Habits.—Trees.—Roosts in the Snow. — Its Lek.—Breeding.—Parental Affection.—Enemies. — Naturalization in England.—Inrequest for the Table.—The Rip-Orre. Or tlie RqK(, the well-known Scandinavian bird, be-longing to the genus Tetvao, there are two species inthe Peninsula, viz., the Dal-Bipa, or Valley-Ripa, Sw.;Skov-Itype, Dal-Rupe, Norweg. (Tetrao Logopus, Linn. ;Jjdgojnis svbaljjina, Nilss.), identical, as many suppose,with the Willow Grouse (Litgopns Saliceti, Temm.) ;—andthe FJdll-ltipja, or Alpine Pi-ipa, Sw.; Fjeld-Bgpe, Skare-Hype, Norw. (Tetrao Lagopus, Linn.; Lagopus alpina,Nilss.), believed by some to be the common Ptarmigan(Lagopus mutiis, Auct.). Both the Dal-Ptipa and the Pjall-Ripa have from timeout of miud been known in Scandinavia as differentbirds.* But Linnaeus, considering the Fjiil

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