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 98
... turn - crown'd like the Nun , and sometimes like a Finnikin , but much larger , which are reckoned the better sort , as being more melodious ; but the best characteristic to know them , is a tuft of feathers growing at the root of the ...
... turn - crown'd like the Nun , and sometimes like a Finnikin , but much larger , which are reckoned the better sort , as being more melodious ; but the best characteristic to know them , is a tuft of feathers growing at the root of the ...
Page 99
... turn of feathers at the back of the head very similar to that of the Trumpeter , or to Aldrovandi's woodcuts of his Columba Cypria . It is the colouring rather than the form which so specially distinguishes them . Their size is very ...
... turn of feathers at the back of the head very similar to that of the Trumpeter , or to Aldrovandi's woodcuts of his Columba Cypria . It is the colouring rather than the form which so specially distinguishes them . Their size is very ...
Page 200
... turn . The Black Swan seems likely to become na- turalized , if not as a useful , at least as a very pleasing , denizen of British park scenery . indigenous truly gallinaceous birds are strangely scanty in number ; and others , very ...
... turn . The Black Swan seems likely to become na- turalized , if not as a useful , at least as a very pleasing , denizen of British park scenery . indigenous truly gallinaceous birds are strangely scanty in number ; and others , very ...
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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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