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Feed on fruit . - Hatch in low bushes on lonely waste ground . - Young have no ring . — The river ouzel also a bird of solitude in spring . - Frequents the mountain burn and moor loch . - Comes down in winter to larger streams .
Feed on fruit . - Hatch in low bushes on lonely waste ground . - Young have no ring . — The river ouzel also a bird of solitude in spring . - Frequents the mountain burn and moor loch . - Comes down in winter to larger streams .
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Occasionally we saw their profiles on the crests of the mountains , or at feed , dotted along some distant correi , in appearance no bigger than roes . Peter had been entertaining me with many a hunting anecdote , or with the natural ...
Occasionally we saw their profiles on the crests of the mountains , or at feed , dotted along some distant correi , in appearance no bigger than roes . Peter had been entertaining me with many a hunting anecdote , or with the natural ...
Page 58
It is also incapable of feeding at any great depth , from the want of web feet , on which account it ... I have twice seen it feed upon some very minute substance about a foot from the surface , but whether animalculę or not , it was ...
It is also incapable of feeding at any great depth , from the want of web feet , on which account it ... I have twice seen it feed upon some very minute substance about a foot from the surface , but whether animalculę or not , it was ...
Page 63
It was not , however , till the begining of April that I perceived the largest trout , looking very heavy and dull , but making no attempt to feed . I watched it for a quarter of an hour , when , contrary to its usual custom of darting ...
It was not , however , till the begining of April that I perceived the largest trout , looking very heavy and dull , but making no attempt to feed . I watched it for a quarter of an hour , when , contrary to its usual custom of darting ...
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... character of the place , seldom visited by man , except for an occasional boat - load of peats , added to which , the shallowness of the water at the edges , growing deep so very gradually , is most favourable to their feeding .
... character of the place , seldom visited by man , except for an occasional boat - load of peats , added to which , the shallowness of the water at the edges , growing deep so very gradually , is most favourable to their feeding .
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Page i - THE MOOR AND THE LOCH. Containing Minute Instructions in all Highland Sports, with Wanderings over Crag and Correi, Flood and Fell. By JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq. Third Edition. 8vo, with Illustrations, 12s. 6d. SALMON-CASTS AND STRAY SHOTS: Being Fly-Leaves from the Note-Book of JOHN COLQUHOUN, Esq., Author of * The Moor and the Loch,
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| Title | Rocks and Rivers, Or, Highland Wanderings Over Craig and Correi, "flood and Fell" |
| Author | John Colquhoun |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1849 |
| Original from | Princeton University |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 185 pages |
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