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Weight of birds; With the feathers as killed I imagine
Ptarmigan male 19 oz
female 17 oz
Wood grouse male 14 lb
female considerably less
Partridge male 15 oz
f. 13 oz
Heath cock near 4 lb
hen 2 lb
Godwit 12 1/2 oz
Snipe 4 oz
Lapwing 8 oz
Ruff when taken 7 1/2 oz
reeve 4 oz
Coot 24 to 28 oz
Grebe 2 1/2
Wild swan 13 to 16 lb
Woodcock 12 oz
Fen goose 10 lb
Eider duck 3 1/2 lb
Mallard 2 1/2 lb
Pochard 1 lb 12 oz
Pheasant 23 oz
Pigeon 14 oz
Knott 4 1/2 oz
Cock of the wood
Swan
Quail
Moor cock 19 oz
hen 15 oz
Wheatear
Bernacle 5 lb
Hare 8 to 12 lb
Alpine hare 6 1/2 lb
Rabbit
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Number of eggs.
8 to 16.
30 to 40 twice in the summer
6 or 7.
4.
4 sold in London at 3 shillings
per doz.
4.
5 or 6.
4.
8 to 12.
3 to 5.
16.
14 to 16. twice when tame
2 The produce from one pair
in four years might be 14,760
8 to 16.
7 or 8.
6 or 7.
6 to 10
6 to 8
Breeds 7 times a year, 8
at each brood. The produce
of one pair in 4 years might
be 1,274,840.
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Food
Bilberries & other mountain
fruits, corn, tops of heath
Insects
Fattened with bread & milk
hemp seed, sugar.
Fish
Worms, insects.
Corn, ants, millipedes, earwigs
Tops of pines, birch & juniper,
berries of the juniper
Water plants, insects, shells
Berries, tops of heath.
Worms, flies.
A coarse water grass.
Fond of pinks, parsley, birch.
Fond of honey & carraway comfits
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The Ptarmigan is found
on the summits of high
hills in Scotland. Soon
becomes exceedingly tame.
Quails migrate from the
interior counties into the
hundreds of Essex. They shelter
themselves during severe
snows among sea-weed
Cock of the wood, cocque de
bruyeres, caprecalze is
found north of Inverness
Wood grous native of Scandinavia,
Germany, France
the Alps, & very rarely
Scotland.
Heath cock, black game,
grouse, inhabits woods
& mountains, perches
like the pheasant, is
extremely quarelsome.
The godwit is taken with
ruffs & reeves; when fattened
sell from 2 & sixpence to
five shillings. Is the francolino
of the Italians.
Knotts also taken with
ruffs.
Coots are sold at Southampton
scalded like pigs.
Two or three species of
grebe are sold for their
beautiful skins at
fourteen shillings each;
are common on the lake
of Geneva, in Shropshire
& Cheshire.
Cygnets are fattened
at Norwich; sell about
Christmas at a guinea each.
May occasionally be purchased
for the same price in London
Tame swans are very plentiful
on the salt water inlet
near Abbotsbury Dorsetshire.
Woodcocks breed almost
annually in Case wood
near Tunbridge.
The flavour of the fen
goose or grey lag, is superior
when young to its degenerate
offspring the tame goose.
Eider down ducks abound
on the N.W. coast of
Scotland.
The pochard or dun bird
is esteemed delicious; is
anxiously sought in
London.
The italians include
many small birds under
the name of beccafico.
Bird catchers sell hen
birds in London at
3d or 4d a dozen:
would it be possible
to purchase these alive
& fatten them? since at
all events the poor little
things must die.
Mallards may be contracted
for at 10d a couple to be
delivered at Boston Lincolnshire.
Moor or red game are peculiar
to the British Isles.
They become shy in winter.
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Identifier: | JB/107/096/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
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panopticon |
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ptenotrophium |
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selling price / hatching / warming / eggs |
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collectanea |
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