 | Francis Buchanan White White - 1874 - 414 lehte
...(I suppose the Golden Eagle is meant), "in Rannoch, eagles were, a few years ago, so very numerous, that the commissioners of the forfeited estates offered...reduced the premium to three shillings and sixpence. " PHYTOLOGY, LIST or FUNGI POUND WITHIN THE PEOVINOE OF MOEAY, CHIEFLY IN THE VICINITY OF FOEKES. By... | |
 | Natural History Society of Glasgow - 1881 - 370 lehte
...(Linnaeus). Towards the middle of last century, according to Pennant,* eagles were so common in Kannoch, that the commissioners of the forfeited estates offered...still occasionally to be seen, however, frequenting tbe high tops of Ferragon, Ben Lawers, Schiehallion, &c. The keeper at Killiechassie told me that he... | |
 | 1885 - 902 lehte
...were, a few years ago, so very numerous that the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates (after 1745) offered a reward of five shillings for every one that...reduced the premium to three shillings and sixpence ; but an advance in proportion as these birds grew scarcer might in time perhaps have effected their... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1885 - 410 lehte
...were, a few years ago, so very numerous that the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates (after 1745) offered a reward of five shillings for every one that...reduced the premium to three shillings and sixpence ; but an advance in proportion as these birds grew scarcer might in time perhaps have effected their... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1885 - 402 lehte
...were, a few years ago, so very numerous that the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates (after 1745) offered a reward of five shillings for every one that...reduced the premium to three shillings and sixpence ; but an advance in proportion as these birds grew scarcer might in time perhaps have effected their... | |
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In Rannoch eagles were, a few years ago, so very numerous that the Commissioners of the Forfeited Estates (after 1745) offered a reward of five shillings for every one that was destroyed ; in a little time such numbers were brought in that the honourable... 