This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...we are apt to condone the thefts that are perpetrated with no view to profit. In reality, the jackdaw is a deep hypocrite--a robber and a bloody-beaked murderer. He chatters his way from branch to branch above the coops with the most unconcerned air in the world--just as a human thief walks, whistling, with his hands ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...we are apt to condone the thefts that are perpetrated with no view to profit. In reality, the jackdaw is a deep hypocrite--a robber and a bloody-beaked murderer. He chatters his way from branch to branch above the coops with the most unconcerned air in the world--just as a human thief walks, whistling, with his hands in his pockets, towards the prey he means to make a snatch at. Then, when he sees himself unnoticed, the jackdaw stills his chatter and makes his stealthy swoop; and in this way, watching while your watcher's back is turned, he massacres a whole family of your innocents, and the hawks and weasels get the credit ot the crime. But, after all, a gun kept upon the spot generally inspires a salutary dread. Many of your young birds survive the perils of their cheeperhood; then the long grass in the neighbouring bits of covert becomes alive with them, and once in that stage they are comparatively safe. Thenceforward till the autumn they feed and thrive, strengthen and fatten. And sport, sale, and the autumn game course out of the question, what can be pleasanter or prettier in the way of sounds or sights than the young birds learning to crow in'your coverts as you saunter out before breakfast, or scattered about your lawn as you dine with open windows of a summer evening? Pace Mr. Tegetmeier, and other gallinaceous authorities, we must say that in the way of pets we prefer pheasants to poultry." Many pheasant rearers are so short-sighted as to recruit their stock of eggs by purchase, forgetting that in the great majority of cases these eggs are stolen either from their own or from adjoining preserves. In some cases the keepers themselves purloin the eggs and sell them to the dealers, from whom they are perhaps repurchased by the owner of the very...
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Add this copy of Pheasants for Coverts and Aviaries to cart. $49.69, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Nabu Press.
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