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 v
... experiments : unknown zoo- logical capabilities , and the results of untried zoological combinations are , at the present date , as little to be guessed at as were those of chemistry a hundred years ago . The experiments are commencing ...
... experiments : unknown zoo- logical capabilities , and the results of untried zoological combinations are , at the present date , as little to be guessed at as were those of chemistry a hundred years ago . The experiments are commencing ...
Page vi
... experiments are commencing , and the writer is glad that he has been one instrument in exciting their pursuit . The whole subject is , just now , of very increasing interest . The industrious student and the unprejudiced discoverer may ...
... experiments are commencing , and the writer is glad that he has been one instrument in exciting their pursuit . The whole subject is , just now , of very increasing interest . The industrious student and the unprejudiced discoverer may ...
Page viii
... - Distinguished from Dovehouse Pigeons . - Disposition . - Experiment . - Gregarious- ness . Crossing with Carriers . - Less kept than formerly . - Mari- 70 . 86 CONTENTS . ix time haunts . - Colonel Napier . viii CONTENTS .
... - Distinguished from Dovehouse Pigeons . - Disposition . - Experiment . - Gregarious- ness . Crossing with Carriers . - Less kept than formerly . - Mari- 70 . 86 CONTENTS . ix time haunts . - Colonel Napier . viii CONTENTS .
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... experimental naturalist . The first system is slovenly and semi - barbarous , belonging rather to feudal times , and a primitive state of agriculture , than to the present day . The second plan may do to furnish an ornamental addition ...
... experimental naturalist . The first system is slovenly and semi - barbarous , belonging rather to feudal times , and a primitive state of agriculture , than to the present day . The second plan may do to furnish an ornamental addition ...
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... experiment , till it is repeated . We demand , therefore , to have the Zoological experiment repeated : let man create ( we hardly dare use the expression ) a truly new species , or race , or breed of Pigeons , quite unlike those now ...
... experiment , till it is repeated . We demand , therefore , to have the Zoological experiment repeated : let man create ( we hardly dare use the expression ) a truly new species , or race , or breed of Pigeons , quite unlike those now ...
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