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 Management |
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Progressive must our journey ever continue to be . Nor even in old age need our interest in the novelties of existence flag , if we have but duties and proper pursuits in this world , and a religious hope for the next .
Progressive must our journey ever continue to be . Nor even in old age need our interest in the novelties of existence flag , if we have but duties and proper pursuits in this world , and a religious hope for the next .
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... and continue fertile , much longer than is generally imagined . Many young pairs of Pigeons are condemned because their owners do not exercise sufficient patience with them ; and from their peculiar habit of settling in a fixed home ...
... and continue fertile , much longer than is generally imagined . Many young pairs of Pigeons are condemned because their owners do not exercise sufficient patience with them ; and from their peculiar habit of settling in a fixed home ...
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He who has most of these birds will be sure to continue to have most , from desertion , as well as inThey decidedly prefer associating with their own counterparts and congeners , to mingling on easy and equal terms with tame Pigeons of ...
He who has most of these birds will be sure to continue to have most , from desertion , as well as inThey decidedly prefer associating with their own counterparts and congeners , to mingling on easy and equal terms with tame Pigeons of ...
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| Pealkiri | 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 Management |
| Autor | Edmund Saul Dixon |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1851 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 30 nov. 2007 |
| Length | 458 pages |
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