Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... sometimes at a great depth below the present surface . These remains are seldom quite perfect . Those found in the rubbish heaps of Roman settlements usually bear evidence of having been sawn asunder by workmen , whose task it was to ...
... sometimes at a great depth below the present surface . These remains are seldom quite perfect . Those found in the rubbish heaps of Roman settlements usually bear evidence of having been sawn asunder by workmen , whose task it was to ...
Page 20
... sometimes ejected sheep from the Pillar Stone by forking them over the side . It was on the south side of Ennerdale Lake that the deer used to harbour chiefly , on what is called ' The Side , ' a spot which was then thickly wooded . The ...
... sometimes ejected sheep from the Pillar Stone by forking them over the side . It was on the south side of Ennerdale Lake that the deer used to harbour chiefly , on what is called ' The Side , ' a spot which was then thickly wooded . The ...
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... sometimes shed in February . A 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 ...
... sometimes shed in February . A 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 ...
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... sometimes voluntarily swam across arms of the sea , and landed on lonely islets . Among the mainland forests this trait must tend to secure a general supply of vigorous mates for breeding hinds , except so far as modern deer - fences ...
... sometimes voluntarily swam across arms of the sea , and landed on lonely islets . Among the mainland forests this trait must tend to secure a general supply of vigorous mates for breeding hinds , except so far as modern deer - fences ...
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... sometimes been confused with the vital maintenance of the developed antler . The vitality of the antler does not , however , depend upon the surface nutrients , which disappear , but upon the internal circulation , which remains ...
... sometimes been confused with the vital maintenance of the developed antler . The vitality of the antler does not , however , depend upon the surface nutrients , which disappear , but upon the internal circulation , which remains ...
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ALEXANDER INNES ANDREW LANG animals antlers beast beat C. J. LONGMAN Cabinet Edition calves Canteleu chapter chase CO.'S STANDARD colour Cookery corrie course crofters cross Crown 8vo Cutcombe deer drive deer forests deer-stalking doubt drive Dulverton England English Essays Exford Exmoor fallow deer feeding fire foxhounds glen ground grouse Haggard's H. R. harbourer haunch head herd Highlands hill hinds horns horses hounds hunting huntsman Illus Illustrations JOHN kennels killed land LONGMANS & CO.'S Lord lymers M.A. Crown 8vo Maps Martindale miles mutton nearly neighbour never old stag owner pack Park Plates POEMS points Portrait practice red deer ridge rifle Royal sanctuary scent Scotland season sheep shooting shot side Simonsbath sport sportsman stag stag-hunting staghounds stalker stalking Stoodleigh Text tions trations tufters venison vols weather wild wind winter wood wounded
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