The quail has a small beak, a short back toe inserted high up, tarsi furnished with a rudimentary spur…
The pheasant prefers wooded slopes or marshy plains. They eat grain, berries, worms and insects.
The pheasant prefers wooded slopes or marshy plains. They eat grain, berries, worms and insects.
Naturally very gentle, they readily yield to captivity, when they become familiar, and evince pleasure…
"The pointer is the off-spring of the fox-hound and spaniel, and presents a remarkable instance of a…
In Lilliput there is a ceremony which is performed in the majesty's great chamber of state, where candidates…
The magpie builds its nest in a high tree or a lofty hedge. It is omnivorous, but prefers meat, such…
The common pheasant of Europe is prized as a game bird, and prefers to make its home in marshes, thickets,…
"The Buffalo. As the game upon which they depended moved about the country, so the Indians roved in…
"Base Ball is a field game played principally in the United States. It originated in the English school-boy…
"Chess is the most purely intellectual of all games of skill, the origin of which has been much disputed,…
"Curling is a game of Scotch origin, played on ice with various shaped stones, fitted with handles or…
"Curling is a game of Scotch origin, played on ice with various shaped stones, fitted with handles or…
"Football is a field game played in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. The game…
"Football is a field game played in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. The game…
"Grouse, in ornithology, are various game-birds, specially the black grouse, and the red grouse. The…
"The Pheasant is one of the most highly prized game birds. The adult male pheasant is a beautiful bird,…
"The Quail is a small game bird; the Virginia species is common in North America, and so far south as…
"Sling the Monkey is a capital game, and can be played anywhere where there are trees. One player who…
"Two players are made to sit on the ground draw their legs up, and clasp their hands together over their…
"This amusing game requires more care and delicacy of touch than at first seems to be the case. The…
A game which consits of figure of a sailor cast in metal and a number of colored balls, and three drawing-pins.
"This game is played something like lawn billiards, except that there are six revolving rings instead…
"This game is played by means of seven pins, made so that they may either be driven into the ground…
"This game, as seen from the illustration, is played with pegs which can be fastened firmly into a bard,…
"Here is a new game, which is causing a great deal of amusement at social gatherings in Europe. Two…
"This is a game of pure manual dexterity, and is rare practice for cultivating steadiness of hand and…
"The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of…
"The Nemian and Isthmian games occurred more frequently than the Olympic and Pythian. They were celebrated…
"Lampadedromia, torch-race, and often simply, Lampas, was a game common throughout Greece. At Athens…
"An athletic game, in which all the powers of the fighter were called into action. The pancratium was…
"Talus. The huckle-bones of sheep and goats were used to play with from the earliest times, principally…
"Hounds were also used to pursue game, as may be perceived from the subjoined representation of a huntsman…
"Some of the Egyptian female sports were rather of a hoydenish character, as the game of ball, in one…
"Some of the Egyptian female sports were rather of a hoydenish character, as the game of ball, in one…
"Some of the Egyptian female sports were rather of a hoydenish character, as the game of ball, in one…
A game played by two persons, on a board containing sixty-four squares, with two differently colored…
"From a very remote period, the Greeks had been accustomed to engage in contests of strength and agility…
A genus of birds of the grouse family, including a number of widely different species of game birs,…