Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... A. THORBURN . Crown 8vo . 5s . WILDFOWL . By the Hon . JOHN SCOTT - MONTAGU , [ In preparation . M.P. & c . LONGMANS , GREEN , & CO . London , New York , and Bombay . SWANTYPE Archibald Thorburn THE LAST STAG OF THE SEASON.
... A. THORBURN . Crown 8vo . 5s . WILDFOWL . By the Hon . JOHN SCOTT - MONTAGU , [ In preparation . M.P. & c . LONGMANS , GREEN , & CO . London , New York , and Bombay . SWANTYPE Archibald Thorburn THE LAST STAG OF THE SEASON.
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... illustrations a prominent feature in the Series . The pictures in the present volume are after drawings by Mr. John Charlton and Mr. Archibald Thorburn . ALFRED E. T. WATSON . CONTENTS NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RED DEER BY THE REV vi PREFACE.
... illustrations a prominent feature in the Series . The pictures in the present volume are after drawings by Mr. John Charlton and Mr. Archibald Thorburn . ALFRED E. T. WATSON . CONTENTS NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RED DEER BY THE REV vi PREFACE.
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... John and other Scottish sportsmen have done ample justice to our grand 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 ...
... John and other Scottish sportsmen have done ample justice to our grand 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 ...
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... John Manwood refers to the district as Martendale as early as 1598 , but he was probably incorrect . Hutchinson wrote only a century ago , Mr. Hazell of Delmain is possessed of the Chace of Markendale , which borders on the lake ...
... John Manwood refers to the district as Martendale as early as 1598 , but he was probably incorrect . Hutchinson wrote only a century ago , Mr. Hazell of Delmain is possessed of the Chace of Markendale , which borders on the lake ...
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... John Macpherson of Sleat , in his Critical Dissertations on the Ancient Caledonians , ' endorses with his own authority the note just quoted from Ossian as perfectly correct . He was considered a skilled Celtic antiquary . He also ...
... John Macpherson of Sleat , in his Critical Dissertations on the Ancient Caledonians , ' endorses with his own authority the note just quoted from Ossian as perfectly correct . He was considered a skilled Celtic antiquary . He also ...
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