Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... shot or otherwise taken ; and , so far as the Editor is aware , in no book hitherto published on Natural History or Sport has information been given as to the best methods of turning the contents of the bag to account . Each volume of ...
... shot or otherwise taken ; and , so far as the Editor is aware , in no book hitherto published on Natural History or Sport has information been given as to the best methods of turning the contents of the bag to account . Each volume of ...
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... shot the female off her nest . the foot as a token of what he had done . claws was missing , showing that iron already used to destroy our Lakeland eagles . Sisson carved a claw out of a piece of wood , and coloured it to match the real ...
... shot the female off her nest . the foot as a token of what he had done . claws was missing , showing that iron already used to destroy our Lakeland eagles . Sisson carved a claw out of a piece of wood , and coloured it to match the real ...
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... shot in winter , but this is a departure from the usage of former days . The Martindale stags run up to about twenty - two stone weight ; but a stag of eighteen or nineteen stone is reckoned a fine animal . The weight of stags is vastly ...
... shot in winter , but this is a departure from the usage of former days . The Martindale stags run up to about twenty - two stone weight ; but a stag of eighteen or nineteen stone is reckoned a fine animal . The weight of stags is vastly ...
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... shot an old horse a few days before he left in May , about two miles from the Lodge . When I arrived in August the deer were coming nightly to chew the bones , and all the latter had disappeared before I left in November of the same ...
... shot an old horse a few days before he left in May , about two miles from the Lodge . When I arrived in August the deer were coming nightly to chew the bones , and all the latter had disappeared before I left in November of the same ...
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... shot the first ' Royal ' obtained in Martindale within living memory . Two other Royals ' have been procured in Martindale more recently . It is not my intention to repeat at length the opinions of others on the 40 NATURAL HISTORY OF ...
... shot the first ' Royal ' obtained in Martindale within living memory . Two other Royals ' have been procured in Martindale more recently . It is not my intention to repeat at length the opinions of others on the 40 NATURAL HISTORY OF ...
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