The Badminton Magazine 1896-02: Vol 2 Iss 7 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 56
only the stuffed skin of one, or more likely a picture in an illustrated bird book; for civilisation and the steam saw- mills have swept away the woods where half a century ago the bird was literally cock of the walk, with his immense scarlet crest bobbing like a drum-major’s plume, and his coat of… … a ‘deadening,’ as the pioneers called a partially cleared forest in which a large number of trees had been girdled with the axe and left to die, gave the log-cocks a fine feeding ground. They hammered merrily on the rotting i | |
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