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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... Runts . - Pigeon mon- dains . Comparison of eggs and weights . - Synonyms of Runts . -Runts at sea . - Rodney's bantam . - Peculiarities of Runts.- Runts in Italy . - Effects of crossing . - Trumpeters . - Archangel Pigeons . Nuns ...
... Runts . - Pigeon mon- dains . Comparison of eggs and weights . - Synonyms of Runts . -Runts at sea . - Rodney's bantam . - Peculiarities of Runts.- Runts in Italy . - Effects of crossing . - Trumpeters . - Archangel Pigeons . Nuns ...
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... Runts , in fact ; we may therefore suppose that the taste of the Alexandrian fanciers was more in favour of the smaller kinds , such as the Tumblers , or the Nuns - an old - established race , and no doubt much more ancient than their ...
... Runts , in fact ; we may therefore suppose that the taste of the Alexandrian fanciers was more in favour of the smaller kinds , such as the Tumblers , or the Nuns - an old - established race , and no doubt much more ancient than their ...
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... Runts , and all those kinds which the French call Pigeons mondains , walk the ground with conscious importance and grace . But this is their honeymoon - the time for the frolics of giddy young people . The male is the first to be- come ...
... Runts , and all those kinds which the French call Pigeons mondains , walk the ground with conscious importance and grace . But this is their honeymoon - the time for the frolics of giddy young people . The male is the first to be- come ...
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... Runt ) , who , by following this line was , with but little assistance from any female , an excellent provider of pie materials , till he succeeded in educating a hen Barb to be a steady wife and mother . It quite put us in mind of ...
... Runt ) , who , by following this line was , with but little assistance from any female , an excellent provider of pie materials , till he succeeded in educating a hen Barb to be a steady wife and mother . It quite put us in mind of ...
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... Runt from the Rock Dove , by any parentage whatever . This is a great heresy ; but philo- sophers will be tolerant , and will not too hastily con- demn the holder of such erroneous opinions to the fag- got and the stake , " for his ...
... Runt from the Rock Dove , by any parentage whatever . This is a great heresy ; but philo- sophers will be tolerant , and will not too hastily con- demn the holder of such erroneous opinions to the fag- got and the stake , " for his ...
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ancient animals appear Archangel Pigeons Australian aviary beak beautiful better bill Bittern Blue Rock bred breed Bronze-wing cage called captivity Carrier Pigeons CHAP chick cock Collared Turtle colour Columba Columbida common creatures Crested Curassows domestic Pigeons domesticable Dovecotes Dovehouse Pigeons Doves eggs Emeu England fanciers Fancy Pigeons Fantail Fcap feathers feed feet female fish flesh flight fowls Gardens ground Guans Gulls habits hatched head History Knowsley LADY live livia Lord male mate native natural naturalists neck nest never observed pair parents Passenger Pigeon Pigeon-house plumage Portrait Post 8vo poultry Quail race reared remarkable Rock Dove Rock Pigeon Runts season Second Edition seen shot soon sort species specimens Stork tail Temminck Third Edition tion Treatise Tumblers Turbit Turkey Vols Water Hen wild wings Woodcuts young birds young Pigeons Zoological