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Grouse are the first sport offered at the start of the shooting season and for that reason this low key bird has a large place in most hunter's heart. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience.

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Publié par	Read Books Ltd.
Date de parution	28 juin 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528764421
Langue	English

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Tips for Shooting Grouse from some of the Finest Sportsmen
By
J. J. Manley
Copyright 2011 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
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Grouse
GROUSE.
GROUSE SHOOTING. - Driving in Scotland .
GROUSE .
T HE French, amongst other mad capers in which they nationally indulged at the close of the last century, re-arranged and gave new names to the months of the year, basing the nomenclature they invented on the real or supposed meteorological condition of each thirty days, or on the vegetable produ c ions of the earth which ought then to be in season. Thus there was Niv se, Snow-month; Pluvi se, Rain-month Vent se; , Wind-month; Flor al, Flower-month; Thermidor, Heat-month; Fru c idor, Fruit-month, and so on: and after all there was a method in this madness, for the names were by no means badly chosen. If English sportsmen, and particularly the lovers of the gun, had to re-name the months, they would doubtless call August Grouse-month, September Partridge-month, O c ober Pheasant-month, November Snipe or Woodcock-month, and so forth. It is to the three first named of these months that the great body of sportsmen in the United Kingdom look forward from the time that they put away their guns at the end of January till they overhaul them at the beginning of August, preparatory to operations on the Twelfth, through November, Snipe or Woodcock-month, with December and January, according to circumstances and the season, afford plenty of miscellaneous shooting. In making a few notes and jottings on the above named birds, and the sport they afford us, I naturally take Grouse first in order, as in the Sportsman s Calendar they are the first game birds with which he deals at the opening of the shooting season.
Ornithologically Grouse are classed under the order of the Gallin , and are thus allied with various families and sub-families, which come under this order, for instance, pheasants, partridges, peacocks, turkeys, and fowls, domestic and otherwise. The grouse family is that of the Tetraonid ; and here I must at the outset indulge a weakness I have for etymology, and ask why this term was applied to the family in question. I know that the judicious Hooker says, and says well, that he who seeketh a reason for all things destroyeth all reason; but I confess I like etymological reasons for nomenclature which is suggestive of a scientific chara c er; and it often happens that getting to the root of words opens up questions of interest conne c ed with a subje c in hand, in addition to settling that of verbal derivation. When writing my Notes on Our Game Birds, in The Country , I was candid enough to confess that I was at a loss for the etymology of Tetraonid , or rather of Tetrao, as applied to each species of grouse. I suggested that it might be derived from the Greek word which signifies four, and sounds very like Tetrao, and that it had been applied to grouse on account of their plump and sturdy configuration, which gave them the appearance of having bodies of four equal sides, or rather representing solid squares. In making this suggestion, I cannot say I was in full earnest, my obje c really being, as I indire c ly intimated, to invite correspondents of The Country to help me, and I may add my readers, out of the etymological difficulty. I soon had my obje c attained by the appearance in the columns of the paper just mentioned of communications from Benjamin Badaud, Saxon, and Zoilus, the main portions of which I here insert. The first named says:
In the first place, tetrao was never used by the Romans to express the bird we call grouse. By it Pliny meant the bird we call a bustard, and so did Suetonius. ( Vide Plin., 10, 20, and Suet. Calig. 22.) It would be superfluous to say that tetrao must have been formed from τєτράων , the root of which is τєτράζω ( glocio ), to cluck or cackle, as the poultry correspondents will bear witness is the custom with hens who have just laid an egg. Now, I think Onomatop ia verbum ex sono fictum offers the most rational derivation of tetrao τєτράων as well as of the Latin word glocio and the English word cluck; all three being derived from the sounds uttered by the birds. Every grouse shooter knows that of an old cock grouse, when forced to take flight rather unexpe c edly. Those who never heard it may read an account of it in my paper on Taking the Grouse Census, printed in the Field of 11th August, 1855.
Saxon says that the writer in The Country must surely be joking when he proposes to derive tetraonid from the Greek word τέτρα [in compound words]. The suggestion may be ingenious, but it is far-fetched, and, in my humble opinion, incorre c . Tetraonid -the family name-has evidently the same etymology as tetrao, which is derived from the Greek τєτράων , a moor-fowl. Hesychius gives τєτράων as being synonymous with τєτρά ων and τєτρ ον , both of which words appear to be etymologically conne c ed with the verb τєτράζєιν , to cackle. Conne c ed with τєτράζєιν are the words τєτραξ and τєτριξ , and most probably all three of them were coined in fanciful imitation of the cry of the bird.
Zoilus backs up the others, saying:
I agree with Saxon and Mr. Badaud that tetrao is in all probability derived from τєτράζєιν , to cackle, in imitation of the bird s cry. An immense number of names have been given in this way, by what Mr. B. learnedly styles onomatop ia. The Latin words glocire, glocito, Gallice Glousses , have evidently been so formed. Even πєρδι&#x03B

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