Retrospect: Reminiscences and Impressions of a Hunter Naturalist in Three Continents, 1851-1928Gurney and Jackson, 1928 - 353 Seiten |
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... morning : though on the first occasion , I recall , that pride was considerably discounted by my dear old friend and co- author , B. , cynically remarking that I had " fired enough shots to have killed 200 " ! - nor will I deny it . B ...
... morning : though on the first occasion , I recall , that pride was considerably discounted by my dear old friend and co- author , B. , cynically remarking that I had " fired enough shots to have killed 200 " ! - nor will I deny it . B ...
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... morning . Fang and talon give short shrift . Within thirty minutes naught save bones and feathers remained . That was my only shot all the morning . [ A rather startling scheme is on foot in Spain involving the reclama- tion of the ...
... morning . Fang and talon give short shrift . Within thirty minutes naught save bones and feathers remained . That was my only shot all the morning . [ A rather startling scheme is on foot in Spain involving the reclama- tion of the ...
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... morning mists . Indeed on wet or fog - bound days never a vulture quits the eyry at all . The whole crowd sit huddled up on their ledges and apparently disconsolate ; though that is not their true frame of mind , since vulturine ...
... morning mists . Indeed on wet or fog - bound days never a vulture quits the eyry at all . The whole crowd sit huddled up on their ledges and apparently disconsolate ; though that is not their true frame of mind , since vulturine ...
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abundant Africa already anglers animals antelopes appear Arcos beast big-game bird-life birds BONELLI'S EAGLE BOOTED EAGLE Borders British British East Africa Bush-veld bustard CHAPTER colour colour-protection Coto Doñana course crags Crawhall creatures dark dawn Desert ducks eggs equally eyes face fact feathered feet fish flamingoes flight geese Grédos grey grouse guns hour Houxty human hunter ibex inches Joseph Crawhall keepers lammergeier later less lion lynx marbled ducks marisma miles moreover morning Nature's nests never nevertheless North Tyne Norway numbers once oryx passed realised recognised remain river roan antelopes salmon Sanctuary Savage Sudan scent season seen sense shooting shot Sierra sight single Spain Spanish Spanish ibex SPANISH IMPERIAL EAGLE species speed spot spring stag Sudan termite to-day trout Unexplored Spain Vasquez vast vultures waterbuck White Nile whole wigeon Wild Spain wild-life wilderness wildfowl winter yards zebra