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Title: The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nelson, Thomas Hudson, d. 1916 Clarke, William Eagle, 1853-1938 Boyes, F
Subjects: Birds -- England Yorkshire
Publisher: London : A. Brown
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ict, under the name of Red Cock. He stated that This singular species of moor game appears to me to be confined to the British Isles This fine species, like the Black, has been much diminishedthese late years to my knowledge ; have a pretty large tract ofmoor myself of some miles extent, where I have known 25or 30 brace killed of a day, but are now miserably fallenoff, tho carefully watched ; and in the same state are mostof the moors in the North, owing to the same causes as thedestruction of the Black Cock. Some even say, the Act ofParliament, postponing the time for the commencement ofshooting, has done more harm than good, as, when the youngones were killed so early, the old birds frequently had a secondbrood, which escaped, yet this appears to me rather prob-lematical. When the early shooting was not forbid, theybegan in June, when many broods were very small, and asmany were worried by dogs as killed by the gun. One greatcause of their decrease, as well as the Black Game, is the
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RED GROUSE. 511 population and enclosing of wild lands and moors. ... I havebeen told, (and this from good authority), even his Majestyhad not tasted any till about ten years since, which, I believe,came from my moors. I sent a fine pair, well set up, toLinnaeus, in the year 1773, which he admired much, and acknowledged in a very pohte letter One, of a much superior size than usual, was killed near Richmond, in York-shire, in Oct. 1877, which weighed 25 ounces. Tho veryshy in mild winters, yet in severe weather they will comedown to the vales in the neighbourhood of the moors, andfeed with the common fowls, and sit on the ling coveringsof the poor cottages, sometimes in great numbers, the poorpeasants not regarding them, or meddling with them. Wastold by a neighbouring apothecary, who goes into the fellsto visit his poor patients in this weather, that he has seen thewhole roof of the house covered with moor game, sitting soquiet that they appeared at first like domestic poultry. . .Ex

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