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 ix
... Native haunts . - Disposition . -How far domestic . - Escapades . - Food . - Pairing.- Nesting and incubation . - Education of the young . - Severe discipline.— Watchfulness . - Voices . - Interesting pets . - Plumage and varie- ties ...
... Native haunts . - Disposition . -How far domestic . - Escapades . - Food . - Pairing.- Nesting and incubation . - Education of the young . - Severe discipline.— Watchfulness . - Voices . - Interesting pets . - Plumage and varie- ties ...
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... native habits and diet . Our own mishaps . - Troublesome tameness of the birds . -Tricks and dangers . - Impudence and capriciousness . — Pos- sible profitableness ! -Narrative of a coadjutor . - His ill - success . -Our own . - Habits ...
... native habits and diet . Our own mishaps . - Troublesome tameness of the birds . -Tricks and dangers . - Impudence and capriciousness . — Pos- sible profitableness ! -Narrative of a coadjutor . - His ill - success . -Our own . - Habits ...
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... true Ortolans . - Not native Britons . Merits as cage birds . - Their song , plumage , and diet . -Variable states of fatness . -Effects of revolutions . Bean Tibbs and his Ortolan • 394 CHAPTER XII . GULLS IN CAPTIVITY , AND GULLERIES .
... true Ortolans . - Not native Britons . Merits as cage birds . - Their song , plumage , and diet . -Variable states of fatness . -Effects of revolutions . Bean Tibbs and his Ortolan • 394 CHAPTER XII . GULLS IN CAPTIVITY , AND GULLERIES .
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... natives , who , if they had heard of white men , had evidently never before seen any , traditionally , or perhaps instinctively , compre- hended the spirit of peace denoted by the offered branch . In ancient Egypt , on the cessation of ...
... natives , who , if they had heard of white men , had evidently never before seen any , traditionally , or perhaps instinctively , compre- hended the spirit of peace denoted by the offered branch . In ancient Egypt , on the cessation of ...
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... native of Egypt , as early at least as the time of Abraham ( the Bible dis- tinctly stating it to have been among the presents given by Pharaoh to the patriarch ) , has never yet been met with in the paintings or hieroglyphics . We ...
... native of Egypt , as early at least as the time of Abraham ( the Bible dis- tinctly stating it to have been among the presents given by Pharaoh to the patriarch ) , has never yet been met with in the paintings or hieroglyphics . We ...
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