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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Page 53
... bill is paid , and I feel assured that you are a respectable tradesman . " 66 ' Thank you , sir , " he rejoins with a bow ; " and you may believe that it would give me the greatest pleasure to assist you in recovering them ; but it is ...
... bill is paid , and I feel assured that you are a respectable tradesman . " 66 ' Thank you , sir , " he rejoins with a bow ; " and you may believe that it would give me the greatest pleasure to assist you in recovering them ; but it is ...
Page 58
... bills of their parents ; they will make the same half - conscious movement to find the tip of your finger , if you take them in your hand . And this act of pumping from the stomachs of the parents is so efficiently performed , as to be ...
... bills of their parents ; they will make the same half - conscious movement to find the tip of your finger , if you take them in your hand . And this act of pumping from the stomachs of the parents is so efficiently performed , as to be ...
Page 63
... bill , it is a sure sign that hatching is about to take place . The object is pro- bably to keep the young squabs from contact with their own accumulated dung ; otherwise it is very apt to clog their feet , and hang in hardened pellets ...
... bill , it is a sure sign that hatching is about to take place . The object is pro- bably to keep the young squabs from contact with their own accumulated dung ; otherwise it is very apt to clog their feet , and hang in hardened pellets ...
Page 64
... bill ; in the Nuns the feet are dark instead of fleshy yellow ; but they mostly run all after the same pattern . Pigeons are among those creatures that come into the world in a very rudimentary state ; a wise ordinance , if we think for ...
... bill ; in the Nuns the feet are dark instead of fleshy yellow ; but they mostly run all after the same pattern . Pigeons are among those creatures that come into the world in a very rudimentary state ; a wise ordinance , if we think for ...
Page 65
... bill , instead of being soft and gaping , is almost as efficient a pair of shears as that of Geese a twelvemonth old . That very extraor- dinary Australian bird the Leipoa ocellata , for a know- ledge of whose strange habits we are ...
... bill , instead of being soft and gaping , is almost as efficient a pair of shears as that of Geese a twelvemonth old . That very extraor- dinary Australian bird the Leipoa ocellata , for a know- ledge of whose strange habits we are ...
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