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 193
... present species should not be generally dispersed over the country ; but such is not the case . To look for it on the plains , or in any of the open hilly parts , would be useless ; no other districts than the brushes which stretch ...
... present species should not be generally dispersed over the country ; but such is not the case . To look for it on the plains , or in any of the open hilly parts , would be useless ; no other districts than the brushes which stretch ...
Page 194
... present , no account of its being naturalized or domesticated has reached me . THE BRONZE - WINGED PIGEONS . - The Columbida , or entire family of Pigeons , containing a great number of known , and probably not a few still undescribed ...
... present , no account of its being naturalized or domesticated has reached me . THE BRONZE - WINGED PIGEONS . - The Columbida , or entire family of Pigeons , containing a great number of known , and probably not a few still undescribed ...
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... present recorded and distinguished , is usually known by the term Guan * ; this , however , is the specific name of the Penelope cristata in Temminck's admirable account of the bodily forms of the tribe , and it would be better and more ...
... present recorded and distinguished , is usually known by the term Guan * ; this , however , is the specific name of the Penelope cristata in Temminck's admirable account of the bodily forms of the tribe , and it would be better and more ...
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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