The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 404
hat are taken at one shootingof the nets is astonishing. Upon the fifth ofOctober, 1767, there were at one time inclosedin St. Ives Bay, 7,000 hogsheads, each caskcontaining 35,000 fish, in all 245,000,000. Pint, s. Half a quart; in medicine, twelve ounces ; a liquid measure.Pintado, s. Guinea… … This handsome-looking bird is twenty eightinches in length, and thirty eight in breadth,and weighs about twenty four ounces. Thebill is rather long, black in the middle, andblue on the edges ; the irides reddish; thehead and throat are of a rusty brown, mottledwith small dark spots, and tinged…
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