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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Page 104
... keep good of the sort , whether they are almond , black- mottled , or yellow - mottled Tumblers , Carriers , Powters , Horsemen , Dragoons , Leghorn or Spanish Runts , Ja- cobines , Barbs , Turbits , Owls , broad - tailed Shakers , Nuns ...
... keep good of the sort , whether they are almond , black- mottled , or yellow - mottled Tumblers , Carriers , Powters , Horsemen , Dragoons , Leghorn or Spanish Runts , Ja- cobines , Barbs , Turbits , Owls , broad - tailed Shakers , Nuns ...
Page 413
... keep them in a fenced - off place with access to a portion of the pond . " Two Herring Gulls ( Larus argentatus ) I got from Orkney in the state of scories , or young speckled birds . They are quite tame , have been two years at Canon ...
... keep them in a fenced - off place with access to a portion of the pond . " Two Herring Gulls ( Larus argentatus ) I got from Orkney in the state of scories , or young speckled birds . They are quite tame , have been two years at Canon ...
Page 456
... keeping , 2 ; plumage , 8 ; quarrels , 142 ; red feet of , I1 ; salt and water for , 42 ; mentioned in Scripture , 9 ; best sort to keep , 147 ; thirstiness , 145 ; tithes of , 47 ; value of , as provision , 13 ; ventrilo- quism , 204 ...
... keeping , 2 ; plumage , 8 ; quarrels , 142 ; red feet of , I1 ; salt and water for , 42 ; mentioned in Scripture , 9 ; best sort to keep , 147 ; thirstiness , 145 ; tithes of , 47 ; value of , as provision , 13 ; ventrilo- quism , 204 ...
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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