 ... there is then no further occasion for shelter. Were it not for these shootings, the fowl that remain about the mouth of the pipe would be alarmed, (if the person driving the fowl already under the net should be exposed) and would become so shy as...  History and description of water birds - Стр. 2961816Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - Страниц: 344
...the pipe would he alarmed, if the person driving the fowl already under the net should he exposed, and would become so shy as to forsake the place entirely....to take a piece of lighted turf or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the fowl smelling him. He is attended by a dog taught for the purpose... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - Страниц: 384
...the pipe would be alarmed, if the person driving the fowl already under the net should be exposed, and would become so shy as to forsake the place entirely....to take a piece of lighted turf or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the fowl smelling him. He is attended by a dog taught for the purpose... | |
 | 1834 - Страниц: 306
...the pipe would be alarmed, if the person driving the fowl already under the net should be exposed, and would become so shy as to forsake the place entirely....thing the decoy-man does when he approaches the pipe ia to take a piece of lighted turf or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the fowl smelling... | |
 | Mary Saunders - 1836 - Страниц: 316
...already under the net should he exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. The first thing the decoy-man does when he approaches...to take a piece of lighted turf, or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him. He is attended by a dog, trained for the... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 496
...already under the net should be exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. The first thing the decoy-man does when he approaches...to take a piece of lighted turf) or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him. He is attended by a dog, trained for the... | |
 | Thomas Miller - 1837 - Страниц: 466
...already under the net should be exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. The first thing the decoyman does when he approaches...to take a piece of lighted turf, or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him. He is attended by a dog, trained for the... | |
 | 1837 - Страниц: 486
...already under tho net should bo exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. The first thing the decoy-man does when he approaches the pipe is to take a piece of lighted tur£ or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him. He is attended by... | |
 | 1843 - Страниц: 488
...already under the net should be exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. The first thing the decoy-man does when he approaches the pipe is to take a piece of lighted turf, or pnnt, and hold it near bis mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him. the bank between the reed-fences,... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1843 - Страниц: 578
...fowl already under the net ild be exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. the decoy-man does when he approaches the pipe is to take a - ghted turf, or peat, and hold it near bis mouth, to prevent the birds 18 374 THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD.... | |
 | John Frost - 1856 - Страниц: 406
...Fens of Lincolnshire. net should bo exposed, and would become so shy as entirely to forsake the place. The first thing the decoy-man does when he approaches...to take a piece of lighted turf, or peat, and hold it near his mouth, to prevent the birds from smelling him. He is attended by a dog, trained for the... | |
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