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Its attractions for wild fowl . - Spring and summer visitors . - Winter or the season . - Crowded with company at that time . - The Castle of Galbraith . - Eight days ' duck - stalking during the gay season 27 Its romantic beauty and ...
Its attractions for wild fowl . - Spring and summer visitors . - Winter or the season . - Crowded with company at that time . - The Castle of Galbraith . - Eight days ' duck - stalking during the gay season 27 Its romantic beauty and ...
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Juvenile poachers . A female poacher . - Gregor More . - A poaching minister . His exploits . - Shooting a shepherd for a deer THE BASS ROCK . • • · Its effect when first seen . - Numerous varieties of sea - fowl.Raven and peregrine .
Juvenile poachers . A female poacher . - Gregor More . - A poaching minister . His exploits . - Shooting a shepherd for a deer THE BASS ROCK . • • · Its effect when first seen . - Numerous varieties of sea - fowl.Raven and peregrine .
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... peeped over the bank , I discovered the little bird under water , rowing itself both with wings and legs , at the same time pecking at something , apparently with as much ease as a barn - door fowl would devour a handful of grain .
... peeped over the bank , I discovered the little bird under water , rowing itself both with wings and legs , at the same time pecking at something , apparently with as much ease as a barn - door fowl would devour a handful of grain .
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A SQUARE flat island on Loch Lomond , called Inch Moan , but familiarly known as the Peat Island , ( from the people of Luss having liberty to cast peats there , ) is a favourite resort of every kind of wild fowl .
A SQUARE flat island on Loch Lomond , called Inch Moan , but familiarly known as the Peat Island , ( from the people of Luss having liberty to cast peats there , ) is a favourite resort of every kind of wild fowl .
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They are also excellent watchmen for the fowl resting on the banks , and it is astonishing to see the quickness with which the latter notice the slightest sign of alarm shown by their white sentinels . But , although I have had many ...
They are also excellent watchmen for the fowl resting on the banks , and it is astonishing to see the quickness with which the latter notice the slightest sign of alarm shown by their white sentinels . But , although I have had many ...
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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,