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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 592

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fair days sport for a party of six guns, but fortycouple have been killed in a day in one ofLord Sligos woods. At Lissadel, in co. Sligo,150 couple were killed in three days by a partyof eight guns; and at the same place on anotheroccasion 338 cocks were bagged in six daysby seven guns. In co.… … Woodcock. nearly pure white specimen is shot and pre-served as a curiosity. See an article on WhiteWoodcocks, by the present writer, in T/w Fieldof November 20, 1897. Good Bags—In his excellent work on theBirds of Xorfollz, the late Mr. Stevenson hasgiven some interesting details of…

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