Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 329
eric name Machetes (a warrior) and the specificname pugnax, which is equally appropriate. There was a time when rufis and reeves wereamongst the most characteristic of English fenbirds, and were much esteemed for the table,being taken in Lincolnshire in nets, and in Nor-folk In horsehair snares.… … RuFF IX Summer Plumage. RVPE THE ENCYCLOPy^DIA OF SPORT 299 bined to banish it from its natural haunts in thiscountry, except as a periodical migrant in springand autumn. The Rev. Richard Lubbock, about 1845, inconversation with an old man who had sethorsehair snares for ruffs and reeves…
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