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 104
... distinction which the society of Columbarians make between Pigeon- fanciers and Pigeon - keepers , viz . , such gentlemen who keep good of the sort , whether they are almond , black- mottled , or yellow - mottled Tumblers , Carriers ...
... distinction which the society of Columbarians make between Pigeon- fanciers and Pigeon - keepers , viz . , such gentlemen who keep good of the sort , whether they are almond , black- mottled , or yellow - mottled Tumblers , Carriers ...
Page 179
... distinction is so slight as to require a practised eye to notice it . The male is also a bolder bird , so pugnacious as to fight even with inani- mate objects ; although the female , when sitting on her eggs , or when nurturing her ...
... distinction is so slight as to require a practised eye to notice it . The male is also a bolder bird , so pugnacious as to fight even with inani- mate objects ; although the female , when sitting on her eggs , or when nurturing her ...
Page 374
... Distinction of sex.- Pick - werwick . - Quails in process of fatting . - Necessaries of life . " BIRDS , faithfully imaging the relations of this life , offer to us , in the variety of their plumage , types of the distinctions which ...
... Distinction of sex.- Pick - werwick . - Quails in process of fatting . - Necessaries of life . " BIRDS , faithfully imaging the relations of this life , offer to us , in the variety of their plumage , types of the distinctions which ...
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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