British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times: With Some Account of British Wild White CattleTrübner and Company, 1880 - 258 pages |
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... horn The Boar's Head , Eastcheap THE WOLF • Skull of Wolf . Cranium of Wolf . Upper Surface • Cranium of Wolf . Under Surface Teeth of Wolf . Natural Size . Wolf hunt . Sixteenth century Irish Wolf - hound · • Ancient Hunting Horn ...
... horn The Boar's Head , Eastcheap THE WOLF • Skull of Wolf . Cranium of Wolf . Upper Surface • Cranium of Wolf . Under Surface Teeth of Wolf . Natural Size . Wolf hunt . Sixteenth century Irish Wolf - hound · • Ancient Hunting Horn ...
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... horns into the ambuscade . The pen is the haia so frequently occurring amongst the silva of Domesday . Horns were used , not , as with us , to call the dogs , or , as in France , to signal the stray sports- man ; but to scare the game ...
... horns into the ambuscade . The pen is the haia so frequently occurring amongst the silva of Domesday . Horns were used , not , as with us , to call the dogs , or , as in France , to signal the stray sports- man ; but to scare the game ...
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... horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot : fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded or tired . " When any Bear - baiting was about to take ...
... horns of the one and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot : fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded or tired . " When any Bear - baiting was about to take ...
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... horns in no less than thirteen out of twenty - one caverns examined by him , while the Red- deer was only found in seven ; thus , contrary to what is generally assumed to be the case , the Reindeer predominated in numbers over the Red ...
... horns in no less than thirteen out of twenty - one caverns examined by him , while the Red- deer was only found in seven ; thus , contrary to what is generally assumed to be the case , the Reindeer predominated in numbers over the Red ...
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... horn of the Reindeer which was found under a Roman altar at Chester . In Ireland , as we learn from a ' Report on Irish Fossil Mammals ' by Dr. Leith Adams ( " Proc . Roy . * Boyd Dawkins , Popular Science Review , January , 1868 ...
... horn of the Reindeer which was found under a Roman altar at Chester . In Ireland , as we learn from a ' Report on Irish Fossil Mammals ' by Dr. Leith Adams ( " Proc . Roy . * Boyd Dawkins , Popular Science Review , January , 1868 ...
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amongst Ancient Tenures Antiquities antler appears Bear Bear-baiting Beaver Blount Boar's Boethius breed Britain British Caithness called Castle century Chartley chase Chillingham CHILLINGHAM CASTLE county Tyrone cows CRANIUM Deer Forest destroyed district dogs Durham Earl Edward England English Erdeswick extinct feet forest of Bowland formerly Fossil foxes Geol Giraldus Gisburne head Henry VIII herd Highlands Hist History Holinshed horn hounds hunting the Wolf Ireland Irish island killed king Lancashire land Loch Lord Lyme Park manor North parish park peat Pennant preserved probably Professor Boyd Dawkins Red-deer referred Reindeer remains remarks river Robert Sibbald says Scotland serjeanty shire Sir John skull sport Storer swine tion tradition trees tusks Wales Welsh Whalley Whalley Abbey wild animals wild beasts Wild Boar wild cattle wild white cattle William Wolf-hunting Wolves woods Woolfe Yorkshire