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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... hope for future Emeus . - The refuge of domestication . Dinornithes , or Wonder Birds . - Their discovery and history.— Adaptation of the various species to their locality in New Zea- land . Their great variety . - Their recent ...
... hope for future Emeus . - The refuge of domestication . Dinornithes , or Wonder Birds . - Their discovery and history.— Adaptation of the various species to their locality in New Zea- land . Their great variety . - Their recent ...
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... hope for the next . But Pigeons are useful , not as mere pets for child- hood and diversions for men , but as affording , by their extraordinary and most paradoxical increase , a valuable supply of food both to man and to other ...
... hope for the next . But Pigeons are useful , not as mere pets for child- hood and diversions for men , but as affording , by their extraordinary and most paradoxical increase , a valuable supply of food both to man and to other ...
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... hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' T was thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' t was thine perchance the first to die , Crushed by her meagre hand , when ...
... hope relief , Want with her babes round generous Valour clung , To wring the slow surrender from his tongue , ' T was thine to animate her closing eye ; Alas ! ' t was thine perchance the first to die , Crushed by her meagre hand , when ...
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... hope you will look in upon me , Don Jorge , and I will show you my little library of the Fathers , and likewise my Dovecote , where I rear nu- merous broods of Pigeons , which are also a source of much solace and at the same time of ...
... hope you will look in upon me , Don Jorge , and I will show you my little library of the Fathers , and likewise my Dovecote , where I rear nu- merous broods of Pigeons , which are also a source of much solace and at the same time of ...
Page 84
... hope of further advancing science . They performed a great work , and we ought to be most thankful to them for it . But that is no reason why we should set up Temminck , or Buffon , or Lamarck , or Blumenbach , as idols to be blindly ...
... hope of further advancing science . They performed a great work , and we ought to be most thankful to them for it . But that is no reason why we should set up Temminck , or Buffon , or Lamarck , or Blumenbach , as idols to be blindly ...
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