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THE woodpigeon is many things to many men. To the farmer, who has some claim to priority of verdict, it is a curse, even as the rabbit in Australia, the lemming in Norway, or the locust in Algeria. The tiller of the soil, whose business brings him in open competition with the natural appetites of such voracious birds, beasts, or insects, regards his rivals from a standpoint which has no room for sentiment; and the woodpigeons are to our farmers, particularly in the well-wooded districts of the West Country, even as Carthage was to Cato the Censor, something to be destroyed.<br><br>It is this attitude of the farm er which makes the woodpigeon pre-eminently the bird of February. All through the shooting season just ended, a high pigeon has proved an irresistible temptation to the guns, whether cleaving the sky above the tree-tops, doubling behind a broad elm, or suddenly swinging out of a gaunt fir. Yet it is in February , when other shooting is at an end and the coverts no longer echo the fusillade of the....

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or systematic natural history : Vol. VII. Part II. Birds : with plates from the 1 authorities and most select specimens / by George Shaw, M.D.F.R. & c. ; engraved principally by Mrs. Griffith».

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Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or, systematic natural history. Vol. 8. Part 1. Birds / by George Shaw ; with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens engraved pricipally by Mrs. Griffith».

Примечание: Общая зоология Полный вариант заголовка: «General zoology, or systematic natural history : Vol. 8. Part 2. Birds : with plates from the first authorities and most select specimens / by George Shaw, M.D.F.R.S. & c. ; engraved principally by Mrs. Griffith».