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Differ in habits from Fancy Pigeons . — Characteristic plumage.Productiveness . — Quality of flesh . — Dovehouse Pigeon . - Indian Rock Pigeon . — Mr . Blyth's account . — Columba affinis . — Question of distinctness .
Differ in habits from Fancy Pigeons . — Characteristic plumage.Productiveness . — Quality of flesh . — Dovehouse Pigeon . - Indian Rock Pigeon . — Mr . Blyth's account . — Columba affinis . — Question of distinctness .
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Undomesticable , and of paradoxical habits . — Their familiar aution . — Attracted by luxuriant water - weeds . — Will have their own way .-- Mode of travelling under water . — And on the surface . — Post mortem .
Undomesticable , and of paradoxical habits . — Their familiar aution . — Attracted by luxuriant water - weeds . — Will have their own way .-- Mode of travelling under water . — And on the surface . — Post mortem .
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160 PECULIAR HABITS . ( CHAP . V. feeding - ground , with an uncertain kind of flight ; but when alarmed , or going straight home , they fly with very great rapidity . [ The domesticated birds have exactly the same habits . ] ...
160 PECULIAR HABITS . ( CHAP . V. feeding - ground , with an uncertain kind of flight ; but when alarmed , or going straight home , they fly with very great rapidity . [ The domesticated birds have exactly the same habits . ] ...
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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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