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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... race , and no doubt much more ancient than their Christian namesakes . It is commonly taken for granted that the Pigeon Fancy is a modern taste ; but it is clear , from many passages in the classics , that a number of different sorts ...
... race , and no doubt much more ancient than their Christian namesakes . It is commonly taken for granted that the Pigeon Fancy is a modern taste ; but it is clear , from many passages in the classics , that a number of different sorts ...
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... races . The great modern instance in which the Pigeon has been made the tool of religious imposture , is the tale , generally supposed to be forged , of the Dove which was said to be always seated on the shoulder of Mahomet ...
... races . The great modern instance in which the Pigeon has been made the tool of religious imposture , is the tale , generally supposed to be forged , of the Dove which was said to be always seated on the shoulder of Mahomet ...
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... race- horse . The poor thing cannot get up and down to its locker , without hopping like a Sparrow when it should glide like a Hawk . It tumbles in dirt while it should be mounting on air . If the dealer could warrant that his adult ...
... race- horse . The poor thing cannot get up and down to its locker , without hopping like a Sparrow when it should glide like a Hawk . It tumbles in dirt while it should be mounting on air . If the dealer could warrant that his adult ...
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... race ; just as in the moral world , what at the time are often thought afflictions hard to bear , prove in the end to have been the steps leading to future welfare . The study , too , of these incomplete commencements of existence in ...
... race ; just as in the moral world , what at the time are often thought afflictions hard to bear , prove in the end to have been the steps leading to future welfare . The study , too , of these incomplete commencements of existence in ...
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... races ? respecting which , we are anxious to exhibit neither a timid silence nor a presumptuous decision . There can be no harm in stating one's sin- cere belief ; and I must say that , having kept Pigeons , though with intervals , from ...
... races ? respecting which , we are anxious to exhibit neither a timid silence nor a presumptuous decision . There can be no harm in stating one's sin- cere belief ; and I must say that , having kept Pigeons , though with intervals , from ...
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