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
... keep good of the sort , whether they are almond , black- mottled , or yellow - mottled Tumblers , Carriers , Powters , Horsemen , Dragoons , Leghorn or Spanish Runts , Ja- cobines , Barbs , Turbits , Owls , broad - tailed Shakers , Nuns ...
... keep good of the sort , whether they are almond , black- mottled , or yellow - mottled Tumblers , Carriers , Powters , Horsemen , Dragoons , Leghorn or Spanish Runts , Ja- cobines , Barbs , Turbits , Owls , broad - tailed Shakers , Nuns ...
Page 201
... keep their feet within the glowing stirrups : if a match fell to the ground it ignited , and the earth was thoroughly heated to the depth of three or four feet ; writing was a labo- rious task , for the lead had dropped out of their ...
... keep their feet within the glowing stirrups : if a match fell to the ground it ignited , and the earth was thoroughly heated to the depth of three or four feet ; writing was a labo- rious task , for the lead had dropped out of their ...
Page 456
... keeping , 2 ; plumage , 8 ; quarrels , 142 ; red feet of , 11 ; salt and water for , 42 ; mentioned in Scripture , 9 ; best sort to keep , 147 ; thirstiness , 145 ; tithes of , 47 ; value of , as provision , 13 ; ventrilo- quism , 204 ...
... keeping , 2 ; plumage , 8 ; quarrels , 142 ; red feet of , 11 ; salt and water for , 42 ; mentioned in Scripture , 9 ; best sort to keep , 147 ; thirstiness , 145 ; tithes of , 47 ; value of , as provision , 13 ; ventrilo- quism , 204 ...
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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