woodcock

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• In addition to slaughtering grouse and woodcock he found time to play in the estate's annual cricket match against Strathmore, scoring a modest nine runs in an innings of 303 for nine declared.
• Much later we learned we had stumbled upon a fall of woodcock.
• The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880
• The 28 shines brightest at modest ranges: in woodcock thickets, quail piney woods, and dove fields, and on skeet and five-stand setups. Deadly Darlings
• i have found some birds in whitewater, woodcock too! Minnesota Grouse
• On the one hand, you have the uplands: home to the ruffed grouse and the woodcock, the ringneck pheasant, the bobwhite quail, and just possibly sharptail grouse and Hungarian partridge, too.
• Raymond has shot a pheasant and a woodcock, tripling his one-grouse tally from the morning.
• The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl.
• For dinner we had a woodcock with souffl" potatoes and pur-e de marron, a salad, and zabaione for dessert. A Farewell To Arms
• Willow tit numbers have fallen 78 percent, woodcock by 74 percent, and song thrushes have more than halved.