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 viii
... naturalists.Estimate of Temminck's authority . - Difficulties and doubts suggested by the accounts of former ornithologists.- The reader to sum up the evidence . - Scheme of arrangement 70 CHAPTER IV . DOMESTIC PIGEONS . FANTAILS ...
... naturalists.Estimate of Temminck's authority . - Difficulties and doubts suggested by the accounts of former ornithologists.- The reader to sum up the evidence . - Scheme of arrangement 70 CHAPTER IV . DOMESTIC PIGEONS . FANTAILS ...
Page 69
... naturalists . When Man sets to work to create a spe- cies of sentient animal , he manages it so well , that his results are of a very short - lived nature . And if Man bungles and mismanages his work so badly , the conve- nient Goddess ...
... naturalists . When Man sets to work to create a spe- cies of sentient animal , he manages it so well , that his results are of a very short - lived nature . And if Man bungles and mismanages his work so badly , the conve- nient Goddess ...
Page 70
... naturalists . - Estimate of Tem- minck's authority . - Difficulties and doubts suggested by the accounts of former ornithologists -The reader to sum up the evidence . - Scheme of arrangement . As it is our object to consider these birds ...
... naturalists . - Estimate of Tem- minck's authority . - Difficulties and doubts suggested by the accounts of former ornithologists -The reader to sum up the evidence . - Scheme of arrangement . As it is our object to consider these birds ...
Page 74
... and admiration , have received this opinion , as a sort of sci- entific heir - loom , and have transmitted it undisturbed CHAP . III . LITTLE INVESTIGATED BY NATURALISTS . 75 74 [ CHAP . III . GROUND OF THE RECEIVED OPINION.
... and admiration , have received this opinion , as a sort of sci- entific heir - loom , and have transmitted it undisturbed CHAP . III . LITTLE INVESTIGATED BY NATURALISTS . 75 74 [ CHAP . III . GROUND OF THE RECEIVED OPINION.
Page 75
... NATURALISTS . 75 to their disciples and successors . Zoologists are too busy with the vast array of objects they have to set in order , to be able to spare much time on the diversities of domesticated animals , and are , I may be ...
... NATURALISTS . 75 to their disciples and successors . Zoologists are too busy with the vast array of objects they have to set in order , to be able to spare much time on the diversities of domesticated animals , and are , I may be ...
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ancient animals appear Archangel Pigeons Australian aviary beak beautiful better bill Bittern Blue Rock bred breed Bronze-wing cage called captivity Carrier Pigeons CHAP chick cock Collared Turtle colour Columba Columbida common creatures Crested Curassows domestic Pigeons domesticable Dovecotes Dovehouse Pigeons Doves eggs Emeu England fanciers Fancy Pigeons Fantail Fcap feathers feed feet female fish flesh flight fowls Gardens ground Guans Gulls habits hatched head History Knowsley LADY live livia Lord male mate native natural naturalists neck nest never observed pair parents Passenger Pigeon Pigeon-house plumage Portrait Post 8vo poultry Quail race reared remarkable Rock Dove Rock Pigeon Runts season Second Edition seen shot soon sort species specimens Stork tail Temminck Third Edition tion Treatise Tumblers Turbit Turkey Vols Water Hen wild wings Woodcuts young birds young Pigeons Zoological