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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... animals . - Crested Turkeys formerly in Holland . - None now produced in English poultry - yards . - Still extant in Central America . - Of two kinds . - Not a freak of na- ture , but distinct species . - Desiderata in our menageries ...
... animals . - Crested Turkeys formerly in Holland . - None now produced in English poultry - yards . - Still extant in Central America . - Of two kinds . - Not a freak of na- ture , but distinct species . - Desiderata in our menageries ...
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... animal food to the increasing family of man . It is not in a highly cultivated and thickly populated country like England that the value of Pigeons , as provision , is perceived . In such places they are destroyed and lost , if allowed ...
... animal food to the increasing family of man . It is not in a highly cultivated and thickly populated country like England that the value of Pigeons , as provision , is perceived . In such places they are destroyed and lost , if allowed ...
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... animals . Mr. Jamrach told me that he had sold a pair of the large blue Crowned Indian Pigeons for 60l . , and Mr. Yarrell informed me that the market price of a really fine Tiger is 4001. A pair of the Impeyan Lophophorus were , in the ...
... animals . Mr. Jamrach told me that he had sold a pair of the large blue Crowned Indian Pigeons for 60l . , and Mr. Yarrell informed me that the market price of a really fine Tiger is 4001. A pair of the Impeyan Lophophorus were , in the ...
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... respect . 66 Varro writes , It may be observed , that the habit of Pigeons is to return to their home , because many per- † Anecdotes of Animals , Book iii . 15 . * Lib . x . 53 . sons throw them off from their lap in the ( c 2.
... respect . 66 Varro writes , It may be observed , that the habit of Pigeons is to return to their home , because many per- † Anecdotes of Animals , Book iii . 15 . * Lib . x . 53 . sons throw them off from their lap in the ( c 2.
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... Animals , Book iv . 2 , there is another curious story of Pigeons being absent for a time from their haunts in Eryce in Sicily , where was a famous temple of Venus , and of their being regu- larly led back after a stated interval , by a ...
... Animals , Book iv . 2 , there is another curious story of Pigeons being absent for a time from their haunts in Eryce in Sicily , where was a famous temple of Venus , and of their being regu- larly led back after a stated interval , by a ...
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