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 111
... continue fertile , much longer than is generally ima- gined . Many young pairs of Pigeons are condemned because their owners do not exercise sufficient patience with them ; and from their peculiar habit of settling in a fixed home , to ...
... continue fertile , much longer than is generally ima- gined . Many young pairs of Pigeons are condemned because their owners do not exercise sufficient patience with them ; and from their peculiar habit of settling in a fixed home , to ...
Page 155
... continue their journey to some distant field ; for the Blue Rock Dove is not always " contented with the food given it at home , " but will , if so minded , stray far and wide in search of provender . Powters and Fan- tails may be ...
... continue their journey to some distant field ; for the Blue Rock Dove is not always " contented with the food given it at home , " but will , if so minded , stray far and wide in search of provender . Powters and Fan- tails may be ...
Page 381
... continue all the year round , without feeling the mys- terious impulse to return southwards f . When they do stream forth to cover the land , it seems as if the lavish bounty of Providence chose at those periods to scatter , with open ...
... continue all the year round , without feeling the mys- terious impulse to return southwards f . When they do stream forth to cover the land , it seems as if the lavish bounty of Providence chose at those periods to scatter , with open ...
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The Dovecote and the Aviary: Being Sketches of the Natural History of ... Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2018 |
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ancient animals appear Archangel Pigeons Australian aviary beak beautiful bill birds Bittern Blue Rock bred breed Buffon cage called captivity Carrier Pigeons Chaonia CHAP chick cock Collared Turtle colour Columba Columbida common creatures Curassows curious domestic Pigeons domesticable Dovecotes Dovehouse Pigeon Doves eggs Emeu England fanciers Fancy Pigeons Fantail feathers feed feet female fish flesh flight flocks fowls frequently garden give ground Guans Gulls habits hatched head Heron kind Kingfishers Knowsley legs less living male mate native natural naturalists neck nest never observed Ortolan pair parents peculiar Pigeon-house plumage poultry Quail race reared resembles respecting Rock Dove Rock Pigeon Runts season seen soon sort species specimens Stork suppose tail Temminck tion Treatise Tumblers Turbit Turkey usual Water Hen wild wings young birds young Pigeons Zoological