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 89
fowls became long inthe legs, small in the body, and bad breeders. Sir W. C n, in his Treatise on Grey-hounds, is unfavourable to breeding a-kin. Bke] tup; field book. 75 He says, If continued for some litters, a the form, with the exception of the size, may manifest inferiority of size, and a… … This is of nearly the same shape, but some-what less than the Bean Goose, from which itdiffers in the colour of its plumage, being mostlyof a uniform brown, the feathers edged withash; the- upper parts, breast and neck, aredarker than the belly, which is more mixedand dappled with paler cinereous…
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