Rural Sports, Volume 2Bunny & Gold, 1802 |
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Page 114
... brown in summer ; so soon as the icy winter sets in , it is then clothed with a warm down , and its outward plumage assumes the colour of the snows amongst which it seeks its food , and thus is doubly fitted to resist the cold , and to ...
... brown in summer ; so soon as the icy winter sets in , it is then clothed with a warm down , and its outward plumage assumes the colour of the snows amongst which it seeks its food , and thus is doubly fitted to resist the cold , and to ...
Page 219
... brown ash- colour and black ; the crown of the head divided by a whitish yellow line , beginning at the bill , and ... brown , elegantly barred with paler lines , bounded on each side with black ; the quills are of a lightish brown ...
... brown ash- colour and black ; the crown of the head divided by a whitish yellow line , beginning at the bill , and ... brown , elegantly barred with paler lines , bounded on each side with black ; the quills are of a lightish brown ...
Page 260
... brown , spotted with black ; the back is of a deep brown , edged with a paler ; the tips of the lesser quill feathers ' white ; the belly white . This species is common on most parts of the old Continent ; it is caught as low as Egypt ...
... brown , spotted with black ; the back is of a deep brown , edged with a paler ; the tips of the lesser quill feathers ' white ; the belly white . This species is common on most parts of the old Continent ; it is caught as low as Egypt ...
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abundance anal fins Angler angling bait Barbel barrel belly birds bite body bottom Bream breed brown called Carp caught Charr Cock colour Dace deep dorsal fin dusky Eels eggs fasten feathers feed feet fish fishery flies float four Fowl Game Gamekeeper gentle Gillaroo ground Gudgeon hackle hair half head holes hook II.-PART inches long justice of peace keep killed kind lake length lob-worms Loch middle miles Minnow mohair mountains mouth night numbers ounces Partridges Perch Pheasant piece Pike plenty pond pounds pounds weight Quadrupeds quantity quill rain rises river Roach runs Salmon season shank shooting shot side silk soon Spaniels spawn species spot spring streams summer tail taken Tench Trout weeds weighed wild wind wings winter wood Woodcocks worms yards young