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... wild - fowlers who are very good field naturalists as a rule - to supposed great snipe which proved on examination to be nothing more than large full snipe . As an opposite instance , not long ago I looked over a selected batch of birds ...
... wild - fowlers who are very good field naturalists as a rule - to supposed great snipe which proved on examination to be nothing more than large full snipe . As an opposite instance , not long ago I looked over a selected batch of birds ...
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... out an ex- planation of this fallacy assumed to be as a fact , evolving the aforesaid theory . Snipe are at different times very tame and very wild . As this more immediately concerns the sports- man THE FULL SNIPE AND HIS COUSINS 27.
... out an ex- planation of this fallacy assumed to be as a fact , evolving the aforesaid theory . Snipe are at different times very tame and very wild . As this more immediately concerns the sports- man THE FULL SNIPE AND HIS COUSINS 27.
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L. H. De Visme Shaw. wild . As this more immediately concerns the sports- man , it will be discussed in the part of the book de- voted to snipe shooting . The snipe is both solitary and gregarious . At times we may meet with nothing but ...
L. H. De Visme Shaw. wild . As this more immediately concerns the sports- man , it will be discussed in the part of the book de- voted to snipe shooting . The snipe is both solitary and gregarious . At times we may meet with nothing but ...
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... wild you will certainly do better with two choked barrels than you would if you had one barrel a cylinder . ' This is not quite correct . In perfectly open country you can , of course , always give a bird law , but many of the best ...
... wild you will certainly do better with two choked barrels than you would if you had one barrel a cylinder . ' This is not quite correct . In perfectly open country you can , of course , always give a bird law , but many of the best ...
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... wild . The reason why one should only walk down wind on wild snipe during a stiff wind is this : when such a wind is blowing the birds can hear your footsteps no more plainly when you come at them down wind than when you 84 SHOOTING THE ...
... wild . The reason why one should only walk down wind on wild snipe during a stiff wind is this : when such a wind is blowing the birds can hear your footsteps no more plainly when you come at them down wind than when you 84 SHOOTING THE ...
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