Identifier: youngsportsmansm00carl (find matches)
Title: The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Carleton, John William, d. 1856
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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st time in dis-lodging them ; thus the geese beat the tuikeyshollow. Mr Daniel gives this faithful descriptionof the birds plumage :— It is larger than the greypartridge, and the bill and irides are red; the fore-head is grey brown ; the hind head is rufous brown ;the chin and throat white, encircled with black;added to which, is a band of white over each eyeto the hind head : the fore part and sides of theneck are cinereous, with two spots of black on eachfeather; the hind part of the neck rufous brown ;the back, wings and rump, greyish brown : the breastjoale ash colour; belly, sides, thighs, and vent rufous ;the sides marked with kmular streaks of colour,white, black, and orange ; quills grey bro^vn, withthe outer edges yellowish; the tail composed of six-teen feathers : the four middle ones grey bro^^Tl, thenext on each side the same, but rufous on the out-side, the five outer ones rufous on both sides ; thelegs are red, and the male only has the blunt knob,or spur, behind them.
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CHAPTEK VI. PHEASANT SHOOTING What can people know about spoiling that never go a huntingabove once a year, and then only on Easter Monday in a hackney-coach?—Sir Oliver Ballwinkle, Heeds not the jay the insects painted wings,Nor hears the hawk when Philomela sings.—Pope. It is a fact, that more than one writer, upon thescience and mystery of sporting, speaks of the crueltyof killing the pheasant, because of the beauty of itsplumage. This is cariying consideration for outwardappearance, beyond most modem instances. For ourpoor part, we hold such philosophy worthy only thosegentry who go a hunting on Easter Monday in ahackney-coach. To the youthful shooter we say, ac-count fine feathers as little as doth the hawk; indeed,we go further, and counsel him, should the chanceoffer, rather to enrich his game-bag with some espe-cial dandy of the pheasant tribe, some beau in goldor silver plumd brocade, than the mere bird of scarlet 8-2 PHEASANT SHOOTING. and purple, that, in and out of sea

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