Red Deer: Natural HistoryLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 320 pages |
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... tion may be gleaned ( Zool . , ' 1882 , pp . 81-8.4 ) . Thompson's ' Natural History of Ireland ' should also be consulted . Our English red deer have received ample justice at the hands of Dr. Collyns and Richard Jefferies , but only ...
... tion may be gleaned ( Zool . , ' 1882 , pp . 81-8.4 ) . Thompson's ' Natural History of Ireland ' should also be consulted . Our English red deer have received ample justice at the hands of Dr. Collyns and Richard Jefferies , but only ...
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... tion was fitted up in the sportsman's style , with a cupboard for bottles and glasses , with strong chairs and a dining table ; and ornamented with the horns of the stags caught at these hunts for a succession of years , the length of ...
... tion was fitted up in the sportsman's style , with a cupboard for bottles and glasses , with strong chairs and a dining table ; and ornamented with the horns of the stags caught at these hunts for a succession of years , the length of ...
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... tion from the burning rays of the August sun but such as they find in the beds of tall bracken , screened from the driving hail and winter rain only by low stone walls or natural barriers of rock . It must , then , be allowed that no ...
... tion from the burning rays of the August sun but such as they find in the beds of tall bracken , screened from the driving hail and winter rain only by low stone walls or natural barriers of rock . It must , then , be allowed that no ...
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... tion of tame examples . This gentleman bred eleven calves in six years , one of which turned out a particu- larly fine animal . This animal carried nine points in his third year . Mr. Carter came to the conclusion that the development ...
... tion of tame examples . This gentleman bred eleven calves in six years , one of which turned out a particu- larly fine animal . This animal carried nine points in his third year . Mr. Carter came to the conclusion that the development ...
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... No doubt their peculiar appearance exposes them to dangers from which other deer are shielded by their protective coloura- tion . CHAPTER III ECHOES OF THE CHASE THE Sculptured stones of 44 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RED DEER.
... No doubt their peculiar appearance exposes them to dangers from which other deer are shielded by their protective coloura- tion . CHAPTER III ECHOES OF THE CHASE THE Sculptured stones of 44 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE RED DEER.
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