The Dovecote and the Aviary: Being Sketches of the Natural History of Pigeons and Other Domestic Birds in a Captive State, with Hints for Their ManagementW.S. Orr, 1851 - 458 pages |
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... Dove - cote upon his land , parcel of his manor ; but a servant of the manor cannot do it without licence . It hath been adjudged that erecting a Dove - house is not a common nuisance , nor presentable in the leet . If Pigeons come upon ...
... Dove - cote upon his land , parcel of his manor ; but a servant of the manor cannot do it without licence . It hath been adjudged that erecting a Dove - house is not a common nuisance , nor presentable in the leet . If Pigeons come upon ...
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... Dove ; but the species has a most extensive geographical range . Such exclusive possession of the Turtle Dove is no more a fact than that the Wrekin is Mount Ida , or that the Shropshire gentry dwell on the top of it to represent the ...
... Dove ; but the species has a most extensive geographical range . Such exclusive possession of the Turtle Dove is no more a fact than that the Wrekin is Mount Ida , or that the Shropshire gentry dwell on the top of it to represent the ...
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... DOVE , 218 . LUMACHELLE PIGEONS , 197 . MAHOMET'S DOVE , 23 . MARABOUS , 315 . MARRAM BANKS , 328 . MATCHES - Pigeon shooting , 168 ; at Paris , 171 . MIGRATIONS of Quails , partial , 381 . MOAS of New Zealand , 364 . MOORE'S Ode to a Dove ...
... DOVE , 218 . LUMACHELLE PIGEONS , 197 . MAHOMET'S DOVE , 23 . MARABOUS , 315 . MARRAM BANKS , 328 . MATCHES - Pigeon shooting , 168 ; at Paris , 171 . MIGRATIONS of Quails , partial , 381 . MOAS of New Zealand , 364 . MOORE'S Ode to a Dove ...
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ancient animals appear Archangel Pigeons Australian aviary beak beautiful bill Blue Rock bred breed Buffon cage called captivity Carrier Pigeons CHAP chick cock Collared Turtle colour Columba Columba livia Columbida common creatures Curassows curious domestic Pigeons domesticable Dovecotes Dovehouse Pigeons Doves eggs Emeu fanciers Fancy Pigeons Fantail feathers feed feet female flesh flight flock fowls frequently give ground Guans Gulls habits hatched head incubation kind Knowsley less live loft male mate native natural naturalists neck nest never observed pair parents Passenger Pigeon peculiar Peristera Pigeon-house plumage poultry Quail race reared resembles respecting Rock Dove Rock Pigeon Runts season seen shot sometimes soon sort species specimens Stork suppose tail Temminck tion trap Treatise Tumblers Turbit Turkey usual Water Hen wild Willughby wings young birds young Pigeons Zoological