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Identifier: britishgamebirds00morr (find matches)
Title: British game birds and wildfowl
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Morris, Beverley Robinson Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Game and game-birds Birds Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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female is less than the male; the whole plumage more sober; general colour lightbrown, varied with darker brown and black; the upper part of the neck in some lights showsiridescent reflections; space round the eye is feathered; breast and belly, dotted withsmall black spots on a light ground. Tail, short, but barred similarly to that of the male. Young birds, till after their first moult, resemble the female in plumage. In weight the Pheasant will commonly attain to about two pounds and a half, butMr. Tarrell gives several instances where, under the combined influence of abundance offood and perfect quiet in the preserves, they attained the enormous weight of four poundsand a half. One brace, which together weighed over nine pounds, separately weighedone four pounds and a half, and the other a little over that amount. The Cock Pheasant measures in length nearly three feet; the female measures onlytwo feet, owing to the comparative shortness of her tail, and its somewhat smaller size.
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1: i MILLIE 15 CAPEECAILLIE. COCK OF THE WOODS. WOOD GROUSE.CEILIOG COED, OF THE ANCIENT BPJTISH. Tetrao vrogallus, .... Lurir^us. Tetro murium ..... Temmixck. Tetrao—A Bustard. Vrogallus, from Vrus—A Buffalo, and Gallus—A Cock. This magnificent and lordly bird was, when Great Britain and Ireland were moreheavily timbered than at the present day, an abundant inhabitant of both countries, and,although, as the inhabitants increased, and the wood diminished, it gradually became moreand more rare, till at length the breed became extinct; in Ireland, somewhere about 1760,till which date it lingered in the woods of Tipperary; and in Scotland about the year1780, when the last was killed near Inverness. Still there is now every reason to expectthat its very judicious and spirited introduction into their woods, by some of our largestlanded proprietors, which has of late years taken place, will be abundantly successful,and that its very peculiar cry may again be not uncommonly heard in al

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