 | 1856 - Страниц: 722
...above the eyes, raising and expanding their tails, and displaying the beautifully contrasted while under tail-covers ; he is soon heard by the females,...very reverse of their former boldness and vigilance." Many sportsmen have remarked that it is a most difficult matter to get a shot at a knowing old blackcock.... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 736
...above the eyes, raising and expanding their tails, and displaying the beautifully contrasted while under tail-covers ; he is soon heard by the females,...very reverse of their former boldness and vigilance." Many sportsmen have remarked that it is a most difficult matter to get a shot at a knowing old blackcock.... | |
 | Страниц: 726
...above the eyes, raising and expanding their tails, and displaying the beautifully contrasted while under tail-covers ; he is soon heard by the females,...very reverse of their former boldness and vigilance." Many sportsmen have remarked that it is a most difficult matter to get a shot at a knowing old blackcock.... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1856 - Страниц: 802
...the females disperse to seek proper situations for depositing their eggs, while the males, losing1 their feeling for love and fighting, re-assemble in...very reverse of their former boldness and vigilance." Many sportsmen have remarked that it is a most difficult matter to get a shot at a knowing old blackcock.... | |
 | Miles's Boy (pseud) - 1845 - Страниц: 602
...complete a new moult, and are seldom seen, except early in the morning or at evening, when they exI hflnt a degree of timidity, the very reverse of their former...broods, and all resort, morning and evening, to some &vourite feeding grounds, spending the middle part ot the dav in rest, or in basking, pluming, or sporting... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - Страниц: 360
...admiration does not continue long ; the females, or grey hens, disperse, to seek proper THE OBEY HEN. situations for depositing their eggs, while the males,...reverse of their former boldness and vigilance." The young may be deemed full grown early in September : but, even then, in districts that have never been... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - Страниц: 390
...in small parties, and seek the shelter of the brush and fern beds, to complete a new moult ; and ase seldom seen except early in the morning or at evening,...very reverse of their former boldness and vigilance.' Many sportsmen have remarked that it is a most difficult matter to get a shot at a knowing old Blackcock.... | |
 | John Jackson Manley - 1880 - Страниц: 436
...gallantry and their feeling for love and fighting, seek the shelter of the brush and fern beds, and exhibit a degree of timidity the very reverse of their former boldness." A most interesting bird ornithologically is the blackcock, and it is a pity he is not as gastronomically... | |
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... their tails, and displaying the beautifully contrasted while under tail-covers ; he is soon heard by the females, who crowd around their lord and master. This season of admiration does not continue long ; the females disperse to seek proper situations... 