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 |
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A return to this semi - wild state is by no means uncommon in other countries as well as in our own . Mr. Gould informs me that domestic Pigeons are abundantly dispersed over every colonized part of Australia ; and in some districts ...
A return to this semi - wild state is by no means uncommon in other countries as well as in our own . Mr. Gould informs me that domestic Pigeons are abundantly dispersed over every colonized part of Australia ; and in some districts ...
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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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In their wild state it is probable that they never perch at all , retiring to roost and nestle in caverns and small hollows of rocks or sea - cliffs , in the absence of which they select buildings that offer suitable recesses , breeding ...
In their wild state it is probable that they never perch at all , retiring to roost and nestle in caverns and small hollows of rocks or sea - cliffs , in the absence of which they select buildings that offer suitable recesses , breeding ...
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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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