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 467
,bright weather, the rud will bite early and late;when coolish, the fore and afternoons ; and inwinter, the middle of the day; when hooked thisfish struggles hard, and requires time in landing,and is so tenacious of life, as to retain it afterbeing taken out of the water a considerabletime Daniel.… … The male of this curious species is culledthe ruff, and the female the reeve: they dif-fer materially in their exterior appearance; andalso, what is remarkable in wild birds, it veryrarely happens that two ruffs are alike in thecolours of their plumage. The singular, wide-spreading, variegated tuft…
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