. A year of sport and natural history, shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry and fishing. Hunting; Fishing; Falconry; Birds. A YEAR OF SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY. but a dying silver poplar they will desert. They show remarkable capabilities for adapting themselves to difficult circumstances, and in this connection a book might be written on London Rooks, or, for that matter, on London Crows. The savoirfaire of a pair of these birds in Battersea Park at this moment is absolutely astounding. They seem particularly pleased. THE ROOK, at having chosen an island where the ornamental water-fowl are p
. A year of sport and natural history, shooting, hunting, coursing, falconry and fishing. Hunting; Fishing; Falconry; Birds. A YEAR OF SPORT AND NATURAL HISTORY. but a dying silver poplar they will desert. They show remarkable capabilities for adapting themselves to difficult circumstances, and in this connection a book might be written on London Rooks, or, for that matter, on London Crows. The savoirfaire of a pair of these birds in Battersea Park at this moment is absolutely astounding. They seem particularly pleased. THE ROOK, at having chosen an island where the ornamental water-fowl are proposing to lay. Nothing could exceed this pair of birds in boldness, and yet anyone who has lain up in the hope of shooting a pair of crows knows very well how exceedingly cautious and suspicious they are. But it is of Ravens, is it not ? that the story is told by a good observer of how they could count two but not. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Crawfurd, Oswald, 1834-1909. London, Chapman and Hall
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