Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... Highlands , tell the same story . Even the gravel beds of our inland valleys often yield fragments of red deer antlers , sometimes at a great depth below the present surface . These remains are seldom quite perfect . Those found in the ...
... Highlands , tell the same story . Even the gravel beds of our inland valleys often yield fragments of red deer antlers , sometimes at a great depth below the present surface . These remains are seldom quite perfect . Those found in the ...
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... Highland deer ; but , curiously enough , no one except the writer himself has attempted to depict the life of the stag upon the face of the mist - wrapped hills of the English Lake district . This fact may well serve as an excuse for ...
... Highland deer ; but , curiously enough , no one except the writer himself has attempted to depict the life of the stag upon the face of the mist - wrapped hills of the English Lake district . This fact may well serve as an excuse for ...
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... Highland deer , feeding where they will and sleeping as they list . The sanctuary of Martindale is the hill known locally as the ' Nab . ' It is not marked upon all the maps , but it lies between Rampsgill and Bannerdale . If you look ...
... Highland deer , feeding where they will and sleeping as they list . The sanctuary of Martindale is the hill known locally as the ' Nab . ' It is not marked upon all the maps , but it lies between Rampsgill and Bannerdale . If you look ...
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... Highland deer . You may tramp through the midst of them for miles , without observing any more stirring sign of life than the whirr of a startled grouse or the hasty scamper of a blue hare . Only here and there , but always at pretty ...
... Highland deer . You may tramp through the midst of them for miles , without observing any more stirring sign of life than the whirr of a startled grouse or the hasty scamper of a blue hare . Only here and there , but always at pretty ...
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... Highland stag has been known to drop his horns in December , but such an event is rare . The Martindale deer seldom cast their antlers until the arrival of April , and some immature animals carry them until May . Hinds cast their winter ...
... Highland stag has been known to drop his horns in December , but such an event is rare . The Martindale deer seldom cast their antlers until the arrival of April , and some immature animals carry them until May . Hinds cast their winter ...
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