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Identifier: gamebirdsshooti00mill (find matches)
Title: Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Millais, John Guille, 1865-1931
Subjects: Grouse Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: London : H. Sotheran
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library
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most l)irds at those seasons; they generally returnagain to their old haunts after a short absence. AVhen the icy blasts of winter show signs of abatement,and the first warm rays of the ^larch sun have taken thesharp edge off their keenness, the bellicose disposition ofthe IMackcock, that has so long been dormant, is oncemore aroused into life and activity by their (piickenino-inHucnce, till, by the beginning of April, the martial firescan be sululued no longer and find a natural outlet inopen wailarc, when each and every one endeavours toprove his superiority and his proper right to the affectionof the fair sex bv the strenuth of his bill. As with the Capercaillie, tliev select a regular >poi 64 GAME. BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES where all who would enter for the tournament mustcome to prove their valour. These j^laces are called Playing-grounds, and are usually situated on somegrassy flat at the edge of a moor or wood where thebirds have roosted. Thither the birds come at or just
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HYBRID BLACKGAME AND PHEASANT. before daybreak, the Blackcocks generally arriving some-what sooner than the Greyhens, but at times with them.^ There are few more beautiful siohts than a Blackcocks playing-ground in the spring. Whether he be sports-man or naturalist, the man who will for once rouse himself 1 On two occasions I waited from daylight, at 4 a.m., till 7.30 before asingle hen made her appearance.