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Definition of Sprig tail
1. Noun. Large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprig Tail
Literary usage of Sprig tail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Fowl Shooting: Containing Scientific and Practical Descriptions of Wild by William Bruce Leffingwell (1888)
"... or as it is frequently called, the sprig-tail or sharp-tail duck, is one almost
as familiar to Western shooters as the ..."
2. Our Feathered Game: A Handbook of the North American Game Birds by Dwight Williams Huntington (1903)
"... RIVER DUCKS THE sprig-tail, often called the pin-tail or spike- tail duck, is
easily distinguished by the long slender tail, which suggested the name. ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"A snap of my finger for the mallard, teal, wood-duck, sprig-tail and others ...
Great numbers of mallard, teal, widgeon and sprig-tail come to the feast and ..."
4. The New Sporting Magazine (1835)
"Old sprig-tail, however, was up to trap ; he had Ais suspicion of the ground not
being firm enough for himself and his load, so he cleared the whole at one ..."
5. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1878)
"The flight of the Sprig-tail is much more rapid than that of the Mallard, and
resembles in its quick darting and wheeling motions, that of the ubiquitous ..."
6. The Sportsman's Gazetteer and General Guide: The Game Animals, Birds and by Charles Hallock (1877)
"The flight of the Sprig-tail is much more rapid than that of the Mallard, and
resembles in its quick darting and wheeling motions, that of the ubiquitous ..."
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