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" is a favourite place for their repose : the thick and varnished leaves of these trees prevent the radiation of heat from the soil, and they are less affected by the refrigerating influence of a clear sky, so that they afford a warm seat for the Woodcock. "
The Game Birds and Wild Fowl of Sweden and Norway: With an Account of the ... - Page 185
by Llewelyn Lloyd - 1867 - 599 pages
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Field sports of the north Europe, Volume 1

Lewis Lloyd - 1831 - 472 pages
...thick bushes in the day, and fly abroad to feed in the dusk of the evening. A laurel, or a holly-bush, is a favourite place for their repose : the thick...the refrigerating influence of a clear sky, so that thev afford a warm seat for the woodcock. Woodcocks usually begin to fly north on the first approach...
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Salmonia: Or: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - Fishes - 1832 - 400 pages
...thick bushes in the day, and fly abroad to feed in the dusk of the evening. A laurel, or a holly-bush, is a favourite place for their repose: the thick and varnished leaves of these trees prevents the radiation of heat from the soil, and they are less affected by the refrigerating influence...
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Salmonia: Or: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - Fishes - 1832 - 330 pages
...thick bushes in the day, and fly abroad to feed in the dusk of the evening. A laurel, or a holly-bush, is a favourite place for their repose: the thick and varnished leaves of these trees prevents the radiation of heat from the soil, and they are less affected by the refrigerating influence...
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Salmonia: Or: Days of Fly Fishing. In a Series of Conversations; with Some ...

Sir Humphry Davy - Fishes - 1832 - 338 pages
...thick bushes in the day, and fly abroad to feed in the dusk of the evening. A laurel, or a holly-bush, is a favourite place for their repose : the thick and varnished leaves of these trees prevents the radiation of heat from the soil, and they are less affected by the refrigerating influence...
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The field book; or, Sports and pastimes of the British islands, by the ...

William Hamilton Maxwell - Amusements - 1833 - 612 pages
...the day, and i'iy abroad to feed in the dusk of the evening. A laurel or a holly bush is a fiivourite place for their repose, the thick and varnished leaves...by the refrigerating influence of a clear sky, so thai they aítord u warm seat for the woodcock. \Yoodeocks usually begin to fly north on the first...
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The Field Book: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Comp. from ...

William Hamilton Maxwell - Amusements - 1833 - 640 pages
...thick hiibhes in the day, and fly abroad to feed in the dusk of the cveninz. A laurel or a holly hush is a favourite place for their repose, the thick and varnished leaves of the*e trees prevent the radiation of heat from the soil, and they are less affected by the refrigerating...
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The Natural History of Ireland, Volume 2

William Thompson - Birds - 1850 - 378 pages
...aquilina) ou the sea-banks, they proceed to the mountain. Moonlight nights f i the irrow Irisb. f 80=.' radiation of heat from the soil, and they are less...that they afford a warm seat for the woodcock."—' Salmoni»,' p. 332, 2nd edit. * Not, however, just so common as in the year 1589, when, according to...
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Shooting

Robert Blakey - 1854 - 210 pages
...thick bushes in the day, and fly abroad to feed in the dusk of the evening. A laurel or holly bush is a favourite place for their repose. The thick and...influence of a clear sky, so that they afford a warm and cosy seat for the woodcock. These birds usually begin to fly north on the first approach of spring,...
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The birds of Norfolk, by H. Stevenson (continued by T. Southwell).

Henry Stevenson - 1870 - 490 pages
...332, 2nd edit.) remarks, " A laurel or a holly bush is a favourite place for their repose: the thick varnished leaves of these trees prevent the radiation...so that they afford a warm seat for the woodcock." 2o2 284 BIRDS OP HORFOLK. ornithological phenomena, an almost unprecedented quantity of cocks were...
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A History of British Birds, Volume 3

William Yarrell - Birds - 1884 - 728 pages
...never moving unless disturbed. Sir Humphry Davy, in his Salmonia, says, " A laurel, or a holly bush is a favourite place for their repose : the thick...influence of a clear sky, so that they afford a warm * Nut. Hist. Trans. Nortlmmb. arid Durham, vi. p. 104. Clare, killed thirty couple in a day; and on...
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