game-birds

These types of sporting dogs were very popular before the advent of the shot gun when game-birds were still downed with nets.

English Setter Dog Breed « Articles « Literacy News 2009

The English Setter was developed as the next stage in the refinement of early generations of setter dogs namely the “Setting Spaniel” a dog breed that was highly adept at sitting setting quietly once it had located the game-birds whilst awaiting the arrival of the hunter.

English Setter Dog Breed « Articles « Literacy News 2009

The game-birds mocked me from the thicket; a brace of white berghaan circled far up in the blue; and I had for pleasant comrade the brawling river.

Prester John 2005

Well, we will take a representative group -- say, the order Gallinae, or game-birds, and, taking our own county of Leicestershire as an example, we shall find that, although there are nearly four hundred species of this order known, but eleven at the very outside are claimed as having occurred in Britain, whilst but three of these are commonly found in the county.

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The hawk looks awkward and out of place on the ground; the game-birds hurry and skulk; but the crow is at home, and treads the earth as if there were none to molest or make him afraid.

An Idyl of the Honey-bee 1914

The falconer, Marcel, had showed him how to make the lure, which was shaped something like a pair of wings made of quilted leather and thickly fledged with the wing-feathers of game-birds.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

There were rare fruits and herbs in the gardens, and a great variety of game-birds and animals in the park and the forest.

Days of the Discoverers L. Lamprey 1910

A natural preserve for game-birds was a good thing to have.

Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910

After that the two used often to follow the edges of the hardwood swamps, the creek bottoms, the hillsides of popples, and -- later in the season -- the sumac and berry-vine tangles of the old burnings, looking for that king of game-birds, the ruffed grouse.

The Adventures of Bobby Orde Stewart Edward White 1909

The game-birds mocked me from the thicket; a brace of white berghaan circled far up in the blue; and I had for pleasant comrade the brawling river.

Prester John John Buchan 1907