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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... young Pigeons go far to explain how so vast and anomalous a result is obtained from means apparently so inadequate , and which thus becomes less puzzling to us than the existence of immense flocks of Sea - fowl , of species which never ...
... young Pigeons go far to explain how so vast and anomalous a result is obtained from means apparently so inadequate , and which thus becomes less puzzling to us than the existence of immense flocks of Sea - fowl , of species which never ...
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... YOUNG OF VARIOUS CREATURES . 67 the young one as a European Hen does of its chick . ” * The Kangaroo , an animal which uses an almost con- vulsive mode of progression on its two hind legs , and would undoubtedly be seriously hindered ...
... YOUNG OF VARIOUS CREATURES . 67 the young one as a European Hen does of its chick . ” * The Kangaroo , an animal which uses an almost con- vulsive mode of progression on its two hind legs , and would undoubtedly be seriously hindered ...
Page 456
... young , 36 ; young of , 7 ; feed their own young , 35 ; helplessness of their young , 64 ; rapid growth of young , 109 . PIGEONS , Almond Tumbler , 115 ; American , 15 , 215 ; Archangels , 99 ; Australian , 190 ; Bald - Pates , 119 ...
... young , 36 ; young of , 7 ; feed their own young , 35 ; helplessness of their young , 64 ; rapid growth of young , 109 . PIGEONS , Almond Tumbler , 115 ; American , 15 , 215 ; Archangels , 99 ; Australian , 190 ; Bald - Pates , 119 ...
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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