Wild Fowl Shooting: Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild Fowl: Their Resorts, Habits, Flights and the Most Successful Method of Hunting ThemRand, McNally, 1888 - 373 страници |
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... feeding- Love of field sports - Pleasant memories . CHAPTER II . MALLARD DUCK . Migrations -- Rate of speed ... fed mal- lards . CHAPTER III . WOOD DUCK - SUMMER DUCK . Beautiful plumage - Sweet memories - In among the alder and maples ...
... feeding- Love of field sports - Pleasant memories . CHAPTER II . MALLARD DUCK . Migrations -- Rate of speed ... fed mal- lards . CHAPTER III . WOOD DUCK - SUMMER DUCK . Beautiful plumage - Sweet memories - In among the alder and maples ...
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... feeding ground- Your excellent blind - Don't shoot through tree - tops - How to set out decoys - The wrong call - How to call in the timber - An ill- judged shot- Make the most of it . CHAPTER X. MALLARD SHOOTING AT ICE - HOLES . Their ...
... feeding ground- Your excellent blind - Don't shoot through tree - tops - How to set out decoys - The wrong call - How to call in the timber - An ill- judged shot- Make the most of it . CHAPTER X. MALLARD SHOOTING AT ICE - HOLES . Their ...
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... feeding spot - Alive with mallards picnicking - A deluge of living feathers - Mr . Drake's arrival - Driven out - In our blind - Coaxing them to decoys - All kinds of shots ; an incomer- A high side shot - A difficult shot - My partner ...
... feeding spot - Alive with mallards picnicking - A deluge of living feathers - Mr . Drake's arrival - Driven out - In our blind - Coaxing them to decoys - All kinds of shots ; an incomer- A high side shot - A difficult shot - My partner ...
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... feeding grounds- Where they feed - Shooting from pits in stubble - fields - A cold blustering morning - Tenacity of life - The prairies - An army of Geese Their encampment - A thousand gray bodies - A narrow escape - Our blind a success ...
... feeding grounds- Where they feed - Shooting from pits in stubble - fields - A cold blustering morning - Tenacity of life - The prairies - An army of Geese Their encampment - A thousand gray bodies - A narrow escape - Our blind a success ...
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... feeding , chattering , or dreamily dozing within close gun shot They would be constantly near one another and apparently at all times watchful lest they should become separated . First the drake would swim in advance , closely followed ...
... feeding , chattering , or dreamily dozing within close gun shot They would be constantly near one another and apparently at all times watchful lest they should become separated . First the drake would swim in advance , closely followed ...
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ahead barrel beauty bill birds blind blue-bills blue-winged teal boat body breast BRENT GOOSE broad brownish black Canada geese canvas-back cirgus color coming companion crippled dark dead decoys deep drake drop duck has gone duck shooting dusky edge extent of wings eyes feathers feeding feel feet fired floating flock GADWALL geese goose grass gray grayish brown green-winged teal ground half head hunt hunter inches killed larvæ Length to end light load look mallards mandible marsh Mississippi muskrat Nebraska neck never numbers pass pick pin-tails plumage pond powder quail red-heads river scapulars sculler sculling seen shells shooter shore shot sides sight sitting snipe snow SNOW GOOSE snowy white sport spot stream strong swim tail coverts trees upper vaiter watch weight wild fowl shooting wild rice willows wind yards
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