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Fancy Pigeons , as distinguished from the Dovehouse kinds that were reared for the table , seem to have been known from a very early epoch . It may be believed that we hear less of the different sorts then cultivated and most in favour ...
Fancy Pigeons , as distinguished from the Dovehouse kinds that were reared for the table , seem to have been known from a very early epoch . It may be believed that we hear less of the different sorts then cultivated and most in favour ...
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A wild Cormorant , that most docile of birds , has been known to alight on the grey battlements of King's College , Cambridge , mistaking them for the pinnacles of hoary rocks ; and so the Rock Dove , or blue Dovehouse Pigeon ...
A wild Cormorant , that most docile of birds , has been known to alight on the grey battlements of King's College , Cambridge , mistaking them for the pinnacles of hoary rocks ; and so the Rock Dove , or blue Dovehouse Pigeon ...
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They are the reverse of the General Post : that forwards a note to any part of the known world ; they will only deliver a note from any part of the world known to them . To avail one's self of the services of Carrier Pigeons , birds ...
They are the reverse of the General Post : that forwards a note to any part of the known world ; they will only deliver a note from any part of the world known to them . To avail one's self of the services of Carrier Pigeons , birds ...
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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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