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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... continue to be . Nor even in old age need our interest in the novelties of existence flag , if we have but duties and proper pursuits in this world , and a religious hope for the next . But Pigeons are useful , not as mere pets for ...
... continue to be . Nor even in old age need our interest in the novelties of existence flag , if we have but duties and proper pursuits in this world , and a religious hope for the next . But Pigeons are useful , not as mere pets for ...
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... continue a little longer to admire their beauty and protect their gentleness . Each in its kind has its own special grace : there is the decorous Nun , the gro- tesquely - strutting Powter , the comely Turbit , the gay and frisky ...
... continue a little longer to admire their beauty and protect their gentleness . Each in its kind has its own special grace : there is the decorous Nun , the gro- tesquely - strutting Powter , the comely Turbit , the gay and frisky ...
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... continue of that colour , which marks them to the present day . The similarity of the Hebrew words ' adoom , ' red , and 6 admeh , ' earth , Adm , ' Adam , is remarkable . A ' man ' is still called ' A'dam ' in Turkish . " + The learned ...
... continue of that colour , which marks them to the present day . The similarity of the Hebrew words ' adoom , ' red , and 6 admeh , ' earth , Adm , ' Adam , is remarkable . A ' man ' is still called ' A'dam ' in Turkish . " + The learned ...
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... continues to be a free and unreclaimed ranger of the old world , but the Collared Turtle , which makes itself so much at home , and breeds so freely whilst in captivity to man . 99 Another notice occurs in Isaiah lx . 8 : - " Who are ...
... continues to be a free and unreclaimed ranger of the old world , but the Collared Turtle , which makes itself so much at home , and breeds so freely whilst in captivity to man . 99 Another notice occurs in Isaiah lx . 8 : - " Who are ...
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... continue to be satisfied with each other . If they are Tumblers , they mount aloft , and try which can tumble best ; if they are Powters , they emulate one the other's puffings , tail - sweepings , circlets in the air , and wing ...
... continue to be satisfied with each other . If they are Tumblers , they mount aloft , and try which can tumble best ; if they are Powters , they emulate one the other's puffings , tail - sweepings , circlets in the air , and wing ...
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The Dovecote and the Aviary: Being Sketches of the Natural History of ... Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2018 |
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