Game birds and shooting-sketches - illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds and varieties which occur amongst them (1894) (14565705597)

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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AN Ol.U llR.Ill.ANDKU 1 l(OM SUTHKHLAND. intervals in the ))oo-lands. Out of a laro-e series of Irishspecimens that I have examined 1 find l)ut little ditierencein birds from the swampy ground of the north and southand those killed on the liio-h mountains of )Mavo, Conne-mara, and Donegal, though winter specimens from thelatter counties certainly do show a oreator inclination todisplay white feathers on the breast and cheeks. An 142 GAME BIRDS AND SHOOTING-SKETCHES old Irish cock in his full breeding - plumage at thebeginning of May is one of the most beautiful birdsimaoinable. The Black Form is the most unusual of the threetypes and one which is very rarely seen developed to any

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MELANISM. degree of purity. It is more often to be found mixed withthe Eed or the White type, but most commonly withboth. When combined with these two forms it is the onemost commonly met with by the sportsman during winter,and five old cocks out of six, shot at that season, will befound to be of this description. Tlie various types to be found amongst the hens are GKOUSE 143 the Itod, tlie White, tlie Spotted, the Yellow, and tiielilack. The females of the Red Irish l)ird are yellow,and not red as would he supposed; they are, however,(;uite different tVoiu what aie generally known amongstYorkshiremen as •* yellow hens, whieh latter are finerin the markinus of the feathers and lack the l)oldnessof the lines found in the Irish l)irds, and I am sorrythat space forbids my being aljle to give examples ofboth the forms. Of the types of hens the red is the rarest, and thespotted and breeding-dress birds the most beautiful. Any sportsman wdio does much Grouse-driving andcares to study natu

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