Thus you see that the Blackcock had an unpleasant time of it; and perhaps it served him right.
Once only he showed himself quite different, and that was when one day the Blackcock flew up to say that all the hills were coming down.
And the Blackcock led them on, and after a time, to the Calf's delight, they came in sight of two more Hinds and another little Calf.
The blackcock fled away screaming before him, the hawk high in air wheeled aside as he passed, but on he went through the sweet, pink heather, without pausing to notice them.
Whereupon the Jackdaw flapped off cawing with fright, and the Blackcock flew away screaming to tell the deer that all the hills were coming down.
Now the way the Blackcock got the idea into his head was this.
So the Blackcock watched, and saw the hounds puzzling out the scent inch by inch with the greatest difficulty.
He waited and waited, distinctly hearing the sound come nearer, though very slowly, till presently a Blackcock came spinning up to him, whom he recognised as one of the old Greyhen's children.
Although the blackcock is a noble bird in appearance, he is dull and heavy, and is easily bagged.
The grey dissolves into dawn, the dawn into light, and the first blackcock crows to his grey hen in the hollow.
Then you must have been the blackcock who killed the snake!
We can cite, as parallel to the case of a mimicking species of which the male copies one model and the female another, the strange similarity between the barred brown plumage of the female blackcock and that of the female eider-duck.
The hybrid which occurs most commonly as an individual is that between the blackcock and capercailzie, which is recorded yearly on the Continent; but it appears to be sterile, and so has no influence on the species.
Aloft, on the hill, the valiant blackcock led out his wives and family from the whortle-grown rocks, to flaunt his plumage in the warmest corner beneath the Tor.
The blackcock is not nearly as good a fellow as the grousecock, that stays with his family, and protects them, and gives them the first warning cry if there's danger.
Now the blackcockoccupies to some extent an intermediate position between these two types of pheasant life, though it inclines on the whole to that first described.
Every spring the blackcock hold a sort of assembly or court of love, at which the pairing for the year takes place.
The great families of the pheasants and partridges, in which the blackcock must be included, may be roughly divided into two main divisions so far as regards their appearance and general habits.
Accordingly, the decoration of the blackcock is confined to glossy plumage and a few ornamental tail-feathers.
Yet, though the blackcock is handsome enough and shows evident marks of selective preference on the part of his ancestral hens, this preference has not exerted itself largely in the direction of bright colour, and that for two reasons.
The imperious blackcock seems to labour under the same sentimental disadvantage.
Actually the lastblackcock chronicled in Surrey were a pair seen near Hindhead, I believe in 1906.
Hindhead; a blackcock guards his grey hen, and was shot not far away.
Yes, of course, I had time to fire, but the blackcock had also time to get away.
Outside, the enchanting summer night allured me to its darkening fells and mysterious woods, and it was as though I could see before my eyes the condemned blackcock where they sat and slept their last sleep.
We thought the blackcock was a very fine bird, who looks exceedingly well in a forest.
Yes, I could see the blackcock so distinctly before me, that I had scarcely reached the glen where we had come upon them in the afternoon than I fired off my gun.
I had happened to come upon the birds during a short walk with the gamekeeper in the afternoon, and I had heard the mother's anxious call, and had seen some clumsy blackcock children following after her into the forest.
A very ingenious form of pen trap is also much used in the North for blackcock capture; it is called the "orre tratt," and is thus constructed: A young pine of about 12ft.
Great numbers of both capercailzie and blackcock are taken in the forests of northern Europe by the aid of traps and snares.
To a similar performance, though with more of dignity and action about it, the Blackcock treats his wives, for, unlike the better conducted though often much calumniated sparrow, he is not satisfied with a single mate.
The blackcock then rejoins his male associates, and the female is left to perform the labours of hatching and rearing her young brood.
The blackcockis very generally distributed over the highland districts of northern and central Europe, and in some parts of Asia.
And when I set out for home, he still stuck to it; he would not let me take the cartridges out of my gun; he assured me his lordship never failed to get a snipe or a blackcock on the way home.
Too late the blackcock looked up, saw his terrible enemy literally dropping upon him, saw the huge wings and the tail feathers open like a fan to break the impending fall, was conscious of a sudden blow--and knew no more.
So saying he trotted off, and Father Grouse spread his feathers just as though he had been a blackcock in a juniper tree, and challenged as loudly as he could.
In a moment the Golden Eagle's talons had pierced the blackcock to the heart, and all that remained on the rock was a handful of bronze feathers, as the captor rose with a shrill cry of triumph.
On little fir-patches mounted numerous blackcock of sheeny feather, and the owls began to hoot in the wood beyond.
This is the best, as it is the pitiful foolishness of the blackcock younglings.
Well, it was Jemmie who proposed a day at Erinofka, a day among the juveniles; the younglings of the blackcock and of the willow-grouse, and perhaps a peep at the princelings of his majesty king capercailzie.
He occasionally brought back with him a hare which he had managed, somehow, to capture; or a greyhen, whom he had discovered upon her nest with nine little cheeping blackcock beneath her.
For all I know to the contrary, my blackcock may still be alive and entertaining his friends with the narrative of how a foolish and excitable Englishman once drew a bead upon him in his youth, and drew it awry.
From the place near the shots a frightened covey of blackcock broke and came over me.
While I was surveying this scene, suddenly one of the blackcock jumped up and the rest of the frightened flock immediately flew away.
I approached noiselessly behind the bushes and saw a whole flock of blackcock scratching in the snow and picking out the berries.
There was a small swamp covered with grass and cranberries scattered through it, where the blackcock and sand partridges usually came to feed on the berries.
I want Essie to promise us bridesmaids blackcock tails in our hats.
Ever since the night of the Phantom Blackcock of Kilnaught.
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