 | 560 pages
...with much strength and swiftness, usually to another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance of six or seven miles. It has also been said, that...was of common occurrence, it was a practice to run the young birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pages
...with much strength and swiftness, usually to another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance of six or seven miles. It has also been said, that...species was of common occurrence, it was a practice to rnn the young birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...described,) it rises upon the wing with great facility, and flies with much strength and swiftness, generally to another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance...of the breed, the young birds, upon being alarmed, squat close to the ground, as the young of the lapwing, golden plover, &c. and in that position are... | |
 | 1836 - 600 pages
...another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance if six or seven miles. It ha» alao been Mid, that in former days, when the species was of common occurrence, it was a practice to run the young birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 528 pages
...with much strength and swiftness, usually о another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance >f six or seven miles. It has also been said, that in former N¿.346. [THE PENNY CYCLOP/EDIA.] VOL. VI.— I day*, when the specie« was of common occurrence, it... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1847 - 556 pages
...with much strength and swiftness, usnHlly to another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance of six or seven miles. It has also been said, that...was of common occurrence, it was a practice to run the young birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1852 - 652 pages
...flies with much strength and swiftness, usually to another haunt, which will usually be at the distance of six or seven miles. It has also been said that...existing with respect to the present remnant of the bird, the young birds upon being alarmad constantly squat close to the ground, in the same manner as... | |
 | 552 pages
...with much strength and swiftness, usually to another haunt, which will sometimes be at llie distance of six or seven miles. It has also been said, that...was of common occurrence, it was a practice to run the young birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1854 - 986 pages
...another haunt, which will sometimes be at the distance of fix or seven mile«. It has also been laid that in former days, when the species was of common occurrence, it was a practice to run the voung birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing... | |
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... the young birds (before they were able to fly) with greyhounds. So far from this possibility existing with the present remnant of the breed, the young birds, upon being alarmed, constantly squat close to the ground, in the... 