ROD AND GUN 



THE BRITISH ISLES 



By lord GRANVILLE GORDON 



IT seems to me mere waste of time to give a detailed account of 

 the close seasons, and the different kinds of game found in 

 different parts of the British Isles, for surely everyone who takes 

 up this book must know that grouse and deer come from the moors 

 of Yorkshire and the forests of Scotland, and that snipe, ducks, 

 plover and woodcock are found all over the country. 



In fact, nearly all the wandering species of European water-fowl 



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