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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... Fancy Pigeons .-- Characteristic plumage.— Productiveness . - Quality of flesh . - Dovehouse Pigeon . — Indian Rock Pigeon . Mr. Blyth's account . - Columba affinis . - Question of distinctness . — Pigeon matches . - Apology . - Numbers ...
... Fancy Pigeons .-- Characteristic plumage.— Productiveness . - Quality of flesh . - Dovehouse Pigeon . — Indian Rock Pigeon . Mr. Blyth's account . - Columba affinis . - Question of distinctness . — Pigeon matches . - Apology . - Numbers ...
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... fancy may be so regulated and conducted as to afford interest and instruction to the young , and a healthy relaxation and matter for speculative inquiry to their seniors . What boy , whose parents permitted him to keep ever so few pairs ...
... fancy may be so regulated and conducted as to afford interest and instruction to the young , and a healthy relaxation and matter for speculative inquiry to their seniors . What boy , whose parents permitted him to keep ever so few pairs ...
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... fancy on whose thoughts the polygamous domestic Fowl so readily obtrudes itself : the help- lessness and indolence of the young for a time , are only made the means of their sooner becoming able not merely to shift for themselves , but ...
... fancy on whose thoughts the polygamous domestic Fowl so readily obtrudes itself : the help- lessness and indolence of the young for a time , are only made the means of their sooner becoming able not merely to shift for themselves , but ...
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... Fancy Pigeons are cultivated in great variety . I knew one person in New York , and another in Brooklyn , who had large collections . The Carrier was employed there extensively before the in- troduction of the electric telegraph , and I ...
... Fancy Pigeons are cultivated in great variety . I knew one person in New York , and another in Brooklyn , who had large collections . The Carrier was employed there extensively before the in- troduction of the electric telegraph , and I ...
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... Fancy Pigeons , as distinguished from the Dovehouse kinds that were reared for the table , seem to have been known from a very early epoch . It may be believed that we hear less of the different sorts then cultivated and most in favour ...
... Fancy Pigeons , as distinguished from the Dovehouse kinds that were reared for the table , seem to have been known from a very early epoch . It may be believed that we hear less of the different sorts then cultivated and most in favour ...
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