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Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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to 2,000brace can be bagged annually over dogs by twoguns. But this, although it rises to barren sum-mits and crags, is essentially a birch island,with in some parts unusually extensive willowswamps and thickets. Nor is the mainland ofScandinavia wanting in excellent ryper tracts,but, as a rule, the sportsman in pursuit of thebird must be moderate in his expectations, andbe more than satisfied if, after a hard dayswork, the bag contains twenty or twenty-fivebrace, and with even half that he should not bediscontented. Much depends on the breedingseasons ; really good ones are few and far be-tween. Considerable disappointment is ofte.icaused to lessees of shootings by the habitwillow-grouse have of migrating in a mass fromone range to another. As regards forest shoot-ing, it may be said that these birds are neverfound in the depth of the pine forest pure andsimple, but where there is a fair admixture otbirch among the pines, a few coveys may behoped for. In heavy rain and storm they are
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v# vs saljion) THE ENCYCL0P.4?.DIA OF SPORT 301 apt to take shelter in the thickest covert, butin hot, dry weather they work up to the scrubof the open fjeld. For the woods, steady close-hunting dogs, such as well-trained spaniels, aredesirable, and for the fjeld wide-ranging butstaunch pointers or setters. Scandinavian dogsare often trained to break their point whenrepeatedly whistled after, and return to theshooter to report game found : they will thenlead him back to it. Dogs perfect in this respectare rare and real treasures. Henry Pottinger. SALMON (Saliitfl sahir)—The salmon is aninhabitant of the temperate and Arctic portionsof the Atlantic Ocean, being represented in thePacific by the Quinnat (S. onchorhynchus) andSteelhead salmons (S. gairdnerii). The quinnatand allied species are to be distinguished fromthe true salmons, amongst other structural differ-ences, by the greater number of rays in the analfin. Both the Pacific and Atlantic salmons de- but no purely fresh-water f

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