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IV . a 66 plumage , which is very peculiar , and she ' seems to take her name entirely from it , her head being , as it were , covered with a veil . · Her body is all white ; her head , tail , and six of her flight feathers ought to be ...
IV . a 66 plumage , which is very peculiar , and she ' seems to take her name entirely from it , her head being , as it were , covered with a veil . · Her body is all white ; her head , tail , and six of her flight feathers ought to be ...
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It is really amusing to read of * “ Jacobines , called by the Low Dutch , Cappers , because in the hinder part of the head , or nape of the neck , certain feathers reflected upward encompass the head behind , almost after the fashion of ...
It is really amusing to read of * “ Jacobines , called by the Low Dutch , Cappers , because in the hinder part of the head , or nape of the neck , certain feathers reflected upward encompass the head behind , almost after the fashion of ...
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119 short and spindle beak , and a round button head , and the iris of the eye a bright pearl colour ; and when in perfection is perhaps as great , if not the greatest curiosity in the whole fancy of Pigeons ; and would take up a small ...
119 short and spindle beak , and a round button head , and the iris of the eye a bright pearl colour ; and when in perfection is perhaps as great , if not the greatest curiosity in the whole fancy of Pigeons ; and would take up a small ...
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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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