Frank Schley's American Partridge and Pheasant ShootingBaughman brothers, 1877 - 222페이지 |
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193 페이지 - And the noons are sultry hot, And the nights are frosty cold.> When the country has no green, Save the sword-grass by the rill, And the willows in the valley, And the pine upon the hill, When the pippin leaves the bough, And the sumach's fruit is red, And the quail...
184 페이지 - The male bird, standing erect on a prostrate decayed trunk, raises the feathers of its body in the manner of a turkey-cock, draws its head towards its tail, erecting the feathers of the latter at the same time, and raising its ruff around the neck, suffers its wings to droop, and struts about on the log. A few moments elapse, when the bird draws the whole of its feathers close to its body, and stretching itself out, beats its sides with its wings, in the manner of the domestic cock, but more loudly,...
58 페이지 - The sides of the body and wing coverts, brownish red ; the latter almost uniform without indication of mottling. Scapulars and upper tertials coarsely blotched with black and edged internally with brownish yellow. Top of head, reddish ; the lower part of neck except anteriorly, streaked with white and black. Primary quills, unspotted brown. Tail, ash. Female with the white markings of the. head replaced by brownish yellow; the black ones with brownish.
192 페이지 - Freitag, 30th; 15 a, same, 3d dil.; 156, same, 1st dil.; 16, W. Link; 17. Puihn ; 18, Reichelm, effects of 3d dil. ; 19, Thomas, 30 drops of infusion, six times a day; 20, Williamson, 2d dil.; 21, Hering; 22, case of poisoning from eating a pheasant, in the craw of which laurel leaves were found, from Shoemaker ; 23, same, second case. (Nos. 24 to 28 from provings by L. Faust, NY Horn. Med. Coll., 1876-7.) 24, L. Faust, aged 20, two provings with tincture; doses repeated, from 4 drops first day to...
129 페이지 - CANACE CANADENSIS, VAR. CANADENSIS (LiNN). SPRUCE PARTRIDGE : CANADA GROUSE. Specific Character. — Tail of sixteen feathers, prevailing colour in male black,, feathers above banded with plumbeous, beneath uniform black with a pectoral band of white and white on the sides of the belly. Chin and throat above, black. Tail, with a broad brownish-orange terminal band. A coloured (red or yellow) comb of naked skin over the eye. Length, 16.20; wing, 6.70 ; tail, 5.44. Female smaller but somewhat similar,...
69 페이지 - Kalmia augustifolia , L. SHEEP LAUREL, WiCKY. Kalmia latifolia, L. AMERICAN LAUREL CALICO-BUSH, IVY. The leaves of these varieties are narcotic, poisonous, alterative, anti-syphilitic, sedative, astringent, errhine. They are said to prove fatal to sheep and some other animals, but are eaten with impunity by deer, goats and partridges. It is claimed that death has been occasioned by eating the flesh of birds which have fed upon them during the winter. Pieris niticia, Bartr., Beuth.
122 페이지 - ... the foot has likewise its inconveniences, as it will be sure to ride up and down on the heel, and sooner or later will rub the foot into blisters of the most painful character. There is a happy medium between these two evils of loose and tight boots, which every intelligent mechanic knows how to arrive at without any directions from the sportsman; "in a word, the boot should be made to fit the foot, and not the foot to fit the boot,
180 페이지 - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
125 페이지 - Tetraonidae are pre-eminently characterised among gallinaceous birds by their densely feathered tarsi, and by the feathers of the nasal fossa or groove, which fill it completely, and conceal the nostrils. The toes are usually naked, (feathered to the claws in the ptarmigans,) and with pectinations of scales along the edges. The tail feathers vary from sixteen to eighteen and even twenty in number ; the tail is rounded, acute, or forked. The orbital region, is generally somewhat bare, with a naked...
184 페이지 - The drumming is performed in the following manner : — The male bird, standing erect on a prostrate decayed trunk, raises the feathers of its body in the manner of a turkey-cock, draws its head towards its tail, erecting the feathers of the latter at the same time, and raising its ruff around the neck, suffers its wings to droop, and struts about on the log. A few moments elapse, when the bird draws the whole of its feathers close to its body, and stretching...