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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Being Sketches of the Natural History of Pigeons and Other Domestic Birds in a Captive State, with Hints for Their Management Edmund Saul Dixon. THE NOW PUBLIC LIPADAY ASTOR . LENDA +7 JACKSON Archangel . Tumbler . Carrier . Porter .
Being Sketches of the Natural History of Pigeons and Other Domestic Birds in a Captive State, with Hints for Their Management Edmund Saul Dixon. THE NOW PUBLIC LIPADAY ASTOR . LENDA +7 JACKSON Archangel . Tumbler . Carrier . Porter .
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... Other Domestic Birds in a Captive State, with Hints for Their Management Edmund Saul Dixon. JACKSON Archangel . Tumbler . Carrier . Porter . COVECOT % ATIART London : Archana 1 . Tunhier . GROUP OF DOMESTIC PIGEONS . P OF DOM TI PIGEONS .
... Other Domestic Birds in a Captive State, with Hints for Their Management Edmund Saul Dixon. JACKSON Archangel . Tumbler . Carrier . Porter . COVECOT % ATIART London : Archana 1 . Tunhier . GROUP OF DOMESTIC PIGEONS . P OF DOM TI PIGEONS .
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... Tumblers . - Their performance in the air . - Feats of wing . - The Almond . - Pecu- liarity of form . - Learning to tumble . - Baldpates . — Helmets.— Powters and Croppers . - Their carriage , flight , and colouring.- Defects and ...
... Tumblers . - Their performance in the air . - Feats of wing . - The Almond . - Pecu- liarity of form . - Learning to tumble . - Baldpates . — Helmets.— Powters and Croppers . - Their carriage , flight , and colouring.- Defects and ...
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... Tumbler , the stately Swan - like Fantail . In any account of so varied and yet so closely related a family , it will clearly be advisable to endeavour to pro- duce something like a historic sketch , before proceeding to details ...
... Tumbler , the stately Swan - like Fantail . In any account of so varied and yet so closely related a family , it will clearly be advisable to endeavour to pro- duce something like a historic sketch , before proceeding to details ...
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... Tumblers and Powters were with us twenty or thirty years ago , when they were more the fashion than they are at this moment ; and as Bronze - wings , Crowned Pigeons , and other foreign rarities still are , and will be , till they ...
... Tumblers and Powters were with us twenty or thirty years ago , when they were more the fashion than they are at this moment ; and as Bronze - wings , Crowned Pigeons , and other foreign rarities still are , and will be , till they ...
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