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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... reared them . A curious change of habits has taken place in England in those Pigeons which I presented to the Earl of Derby in 1830 , that nobleman having assured me that ever since they began breeding in his aviaries , they have laid ...
... reared them . A curious change of habits has taken place in England in those Pigeons which I presented to the Earl of Derby in 1830 , that nobleman having assured me that ever since they began breeding in his aviaries , they have laid ...
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... reared and provided by man , seems , like the case of bees , to have been a most easy change to effect . We all remember the beautiful passage in Virgil , de- scribing the Pigeon disturbed from her nest in the cavern . We often see how ...
... reared and provided by man , seems , like the case of bees , to have been a most easy change to effect . We all remember the beautiful passage in Virgil , de- scribing the Pigeon disturbed from her nest in the cavern . We often see how ...
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... reared for the table , seem to have been known from a very early epoch . It may be believed that we hear less of the different sorts then cultivated and most in favour , in consequence of the merits of all the others being so much ...
... reared for the table , seem to have been known from a very early epoch . It may be believed that we hear less of the different sorts then cultivated and most in favour , in consequence of the merits of all the others being so much ...
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... domestic uses , is , that the young of the latter have to be supplied with suit- able food as well as the parents , and on that supply very much depends the chance of successfully rearing CHAP . II . ] MANAGEMENT OF PIGEONS . 35.
... domestic uses , is , that the young of the latter have to be supplied with suit- able food as well as the parents , and on that supply very much depends the chance of successfully rearing CHAP . II . ] MANAGEMENT OF PIGEONS . 35.
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... rearing of the inmates , according to de- terminate rules . This last mode , which may be made equally profitable as regards the increase of stock , is the only one which can prove satisfactory to the fancier , or to the experimental ...
... rearing of the inmates , according to de- terminate rules . This last mode , which may be made equally profitable as regards the increase of stock , is the only one which can prove satisfactory to the fancier , or to the experimental ...
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