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Examples
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You have archery season, sharp-tail grouse are open and the fishing is moving to insanity.
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You have archery season, sharp-tail grouse are open and the fishing is moving to insanity.
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Give the sage grouse and sharp-tail ten-year close seasons, at once, to forestall their extermination.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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We had seen two or three jackrabbits scudding off like noiseless white shadows, and finally came upon some sharp-tail prairie fowl in a hollow.
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When near the hut I killed a sharp-tail for supper, making rather a neat shot, the bird being eighty yards off.
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Unlike the sharp-tail the habits and haunts of the sage fowl are throughout the year the same, except that it grows shyer as the season advances, and occasionally wanders a little farther than formerly from its birthplace.
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Besides the sharp-tail there is but one kind of grouse found in the northern cattle plains.
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Before I had gone a hundred yards I had put up another sharp-tail from a cedar and killed him in fine style as he sailed off below me.
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I have been especially struck by it when shooting in Minnesota, where both the sharp-tail and the common prairie fowl are found; the contrast between the noisiness of one bird and the quiet of the other was very marked.
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