Identifier: uplandgamebirds00sandyse (find matches)
Title: Upland game birds
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sandys, Edwyn Van Dyke, Theodore S. (Theodore Strong), b. 1842
Subjects: Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London : Macmillan & co., ltd.
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he ground is toovast for them. Unaccustomed as they are toan apparently limitless scope of novel cover withnever a fence or bit of brush to catch their eyeand draw them on, they are apt to at first feelsomewhat dazed by the seemingly hopeless pros-pect before them. Nor is this to be wondered at,for not seldom the man, too, feels how small is thechance of striking the right spot in all that seaof space. But a good dog is good anywhere, andpresently, after he has enjoyed his initial whiff ofthe rich new scent, he will go striding away atthat regular, determined, all-day-got-to-find-em-at-last gait which is the hall-mark of a good onebroken on the plains. The deadliest foes of the prairie-hen, rankedin order of destructiveness, are: man, as sports-man, lighter of fires, farmer, and as trapper; theweather, as snow, cold, and rain; the beasts andbirds of prey — wolves, foxes, skunks, and hawksand snakes. Dismissing the ravages by weather,of which excessive rain, by reason of its flooding
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THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN(Pinnated Grouse) The Prairie-Hen 175 the nests and killing the young, causes by far thegreatest damage, man is responsible for the reallyheavy mortality. If all the chickens which annu-ally fall victims to the legitimate use of the guncould be piled in one heap, the mountain of meatwould be quite large enough to make most peoplegasp in amazement. Yet so productive are thebirds, and so broad their yet available ranges,that with rational game laws, rigidly enforced, thesport they afford might be indefinitely prolonged.Unfortunately, too many men are slow to under-stand the necessity for only killing in reason andin season. In far too many instances the manwho abides by the law and fares forth upon thefirst lawful day finds that some sneaking rufiianhas been over the ground in advance of the legiti-mate hour. Nor must it be imagined that onlythe needy poacher or the merciless market hunteris to blame. To their shame be it said that ahost of well-to-do and apparently r

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