Lexicographical Neighbors of Ringnecks
Literary usage of Ringnecks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Pheasant Breeding and Shooting by Emmet Augustus Quarles (1916)
"They are each of them distinctly more difficult to raise than the ringnecks, and
the few we have are only for popular interest. AVe have not succeeded in ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1920)
"They, like the male ringnecks, are very conspicuous as they dart about along the
bottom rising like corks after a short immersion. ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1899)
"... and ringnecks. The sun was pretty well up hy the time we left the blind, and
on reaching the boat, a hungry crowd, we were pleased to find that the ..."
4. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
"On account of its greater wildness, or shyness, the young of the Chinese pheasant
are much more apt to get into trouble than the young English ringnecks are ..."
5. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1907)
"... pregnable islands, owing to the limited area, are depopulated to even a greater
extent, and the former breeding grounds of the ringnecks are destroyed. ..."
6. Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice: Lectures Delivered Before the by William Temple Hornaday, Frederic Collin Walcott (1914)
"New York's farm so far has stocked that state with 10000 ring-necked pheasants
and distributed 45500 eggs; while West Virginia has produced 200 ringnecks, ..."
7. Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice: Lectures Delivered Before the by William Temple Hornaday, Frederic Collin Walcott (1914)
"New York's farm so far has stocked that state with 10000 ring-necked pheasants
and distributed 45500 eggs; while West Virginia has produced 200 ringnecks, ..."
8. Seven Years in South Africa: Travels, Researches, and Hunting Adventures by Emil Holub (1881)
"... I shot one of the short black snakes that are known to the Dutch farmers as "
ringnecks," on account of the white mark on their throat. ..."
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