The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries (1867) (14747331664)

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Title: The game birds and wild fowl of Sweden and Norway; with an account of the seals and salt-water fishes of those countries ..
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Lloyd, L. (Llewelyn), 1792?-1876
Subjects: Game and game-birds Marine animals
Publisher: London, F. Warne and co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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bersof these birds in confinement; but during the pairingseasons the males gave me much trouble, being then soquarrelsome that, to prevent casualties, I was alwaysobliged to separate them. In the rural districts of Sweden one often sees a cagedBlack-Cock at the houses of the gentry, this bird beinggreatly admired by every one, both for his beauty and forhis spel, or song, which, though perhaps anything butmusical, is still wild and pleasing, and, during the pairingseason, almost continual. When confined in a coop, or aviary, its treatment isvery similar to that of the Capercali. It eats freely almostall kinds of grain, and most of the forest berries, especiallythe juniper : of the Knopp, or incipient bud, of the birch-tree it is also very fond. Water and sand, both coarseand fine, it should never be without. The Black-Cock is said to breed readily in confine-ment ; but I myself never tried the experiment, thinkingit less troublesome to procure young birds from theforest in the autumn.
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CHAPTER VI. Shooting Black-Cock at the Pairing-Ground—With a Pointer—Witli aFogel-Hiuid.—Capture by Nets.—Artificial Decoy Birds.—Stalkingon Foot—In a Sledge.—Ti-aps and Snares.—The Orre-Tratt.—TheOrre-Benne. r^HE Black-Cock is a favourite disli at the tables of the-*- upper classes in Scandinavia, and the consumption ofthese birds is therefore great. About the year 1760 it wascalculated, on pretty sure data, that from sixty to eightythousand annually found their way to the Stockholmmarket, and that at least two hundred thousand morewere consumed elsewhere in Sweden. If the consumptionAA^as so considerable in those days, what must it be atpresent, when wealth and luxury have so increased ? Tliis bird being so highly prized, various expedientsare adopted to obtain it. Very manj^ are shot, and alarge portion at the lek-stalle, or pairing-ground,spoken of in the last chapter. This, as said, is iisuallysituated on a morass, or other opening in the forest, orit may be on