. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . j^^cr-^Sff^/Oje,i HYBRID BLACKGAME AND PHEASANT. before daybreak, the Blackcocks generally arriving some-what sooner than the Greyhens, but at times with them.^ There are few more beautiful sights than a Blackcocks playing-ground in the spring. Whether he be sports-man or naturalist, the man who will for once rouse himself 1 Oil t\No occasions I waited from daylight, at 4 , till liefore asingle hen made her AMONGST THE F
. Game birds and shooting-sketches : illustrating the habits, modes of capture, stages of plumage and the hybirds & varieties which occur amongst them . j^^cr-^Sff^/Oje,i HYBRID BLACKGAME AND PHEASANT. before daybreak, the Blackcocks generally arriving some-what sooner than the Greyhens, but at times with them.^ There are few more beautiful sights than a Blackcocks playing-ground in the spring. Whether he be sports-man or naturalist, the man who will for once rouse himself 1 Oil t\No occasions I waited from daylight, at 4 , till liefore asingle hen made her AMONGST THE FIRS AND LARCHES (Blackgaiue ill the Trees). BLACKGAME 67 to light his candle and dress in the cold grey morning, inorder to visit one of them, will, half an hour later, feelhighly pleased with himself and his supernatural activity,and, as he goes swinging along at a good pace over theheather, he will actually feel the most intense pity forthose unfortunates wdio know not of such joys. Thelioht mornino- breeze fans his cheek and he feels a glowof health pervade his being as he draws each fresh breathinto his lungs. Every few moments, too, bring with themfresh pleasures as the opening day advances, and hewatches Nature awaking from her sleep and all her littlefeathered songsters vying wdth each other to excel inpraise of the God that made them. The Thrush and tlie Lark are the first birds to stir,and their sons; can be heard lono- before there is sufficientlight to distinguish them. Soon the Whirroo of theBlackcock and the Cloback of the Grouse join the chorusjust as the da
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