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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 156

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• ofleverets. Vermin, in the game preservers sense, iseither four-footed or winged. Amongst theformer must be included cats, polecats, fo.xes,stoats, weasels, pine-martens, hedgehogs, andrats ; amongst the latter, crows, rooks, jackdaws,magpies, jays, sparrow hawks, brown owls,peregrine falcon,… … Sparkowhawk and Partridges the young tops and the cones of the fir treesand on berries of the juniper, and may be some-times found on the stooks. The flight of acapercailzie, big bird as he is, is absolutelynoiseless and very fast. The female lays fromsix to eighteen eggs, and deposits them on…

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