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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... short scaffold - pole , divided internally into apartments , each of some cubic inches capacity , and each with a little landing - place project- ing for the birds to alight upon , after their meal on the ground , or their circling ...
... short scaffold - pole , divided internally into apartments , each of some cubic inches capacity , and each with a little landing - place project- ing for the birds to alight upon , after their meal on the ground , or their circling ...
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... short , making the regular salt cat , which the trappists ( not ecclesiastical ) of the present day know to be so irresistible a bait for stray birds . But the great bond of attachment is to make their home comfortable , of which ...
... short , making the regular salt cat , which the trappists ( not ecclesiastical ) of the present day know to be so irresistible a bait for stray birds . But the great bond of attachment is to make their home comfortable , of which ...
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... separate cages for special pur- poses , and in short all the apparatus requisite for the systematic practice of breeding , and of regulating the CHAP . II . MODES OF PIGEON - KEEPING . 36 [ CHAP . II . NEW - HATCHED SQUABS .
... separate cages for special pur- poses , and in short all the apparatus requisite for the systematic practice of breeding , and of regulating the CHAP . II . MODES OF PIGEON - KEEPING . 36 [ CHAP . II . NEW - HATCHED SQUABS .
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... short and soft , or frail ; the frail is most valued , because it lays hollow , and lasts a great while , the dung shaking off it as occasion requires . " * Although in the country , and such situations where the Pigeons may safely be ...
... short and soft , or frail ; the frail is most valued , because it lays hollow , and lasts a great while , the dung shaking off it as occasion requires . " * Although in the country , and such situations where the Pigeons may safely be ...
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... short distances for the pur- pose of courtship , and pay each other little kind atten- tions , such as nestling close , and mutually tickling the heads one of another . At last comes what is called " billing , " which is , in fact , a ...
... short distances for the pur- pose of courtship , and pay each other little kind atten- tions , such as nestling close , and mutually tickling the heads one of another . At last comes what is called " billing , " which is , in fact , a ...
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