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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... SOMETIMES LESS PROLIFIC . [ CHAP . L. the Partridge , the Turkey , the Guinea - fowl , and even the Hen , notwithstanding the multitudinous broods they lead forth , are not nearly so abundant , the closest approach to them among ...
... SOMETIMES LESS PROLIFIC . [ CHAP . L. the Partridge , the Turkey , the Guinea - fowl , and even the Hen , notwithstanding the multitudinous broods they lead forth , are not nearly so abundant , the closest approach to them among ...
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... sometimes with a sort of half - liberty - the run of a large mansion , or the permission to pop in and out a ... sometimes keeping close at home , sometimes getting out of bounds and losing themselves . The coo answers the purpose of a ...
... sometimes with a sort of half - liberty - the run of a large mansion , or the permission to pop in and out a ... sometimes keeping close at home , sometimes getting out of bounds and losing themselves . The coo answers the purpose of a ...
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... sometimes black , sometimes white ; and these Crested Turkeys are sufficiently rare . Ma- demoiselle Backer formerly kept , in her magnificent menagerie near the Hague , a flock of Turkeys of a beautiful Isabelle yellow approaching to ...
... sometimes black , sometimes white ; and these Crested Turkeys are sufficiently rare . Ma- demoiselle Backer formerly kept , in her magnificent menagerie near the Hague , a flock of Turkeys of a beautiful Isabelle yellow approaching to ...
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The Dovecote and the Aviary: Being Sketches of the Natural History of ... Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2018 |
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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