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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... young Pigeons go far to explain how so vast and anomalous a result is obtained from means apparently so inadequate , and which thus becomes less puzzling to us than the existence of immense flocks of Sea - fowl , of species which never ...
... young Pigeons go far to explain how so vast and anomalous a result is obtained from means apparently so inadequate , and which thus becomes less puzzling to us than the existence of immense flocks of Sea - fowl , of species which never ...
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... young ( Curassows ) , as we believe , are not in so forward a state , on their exit from the egg , as the young of the ground - breeding gallinacea . " -- Martin , Art . Poultry , p . 567 . These statements are not borne out by ...
... young ( Curassows ) , as we believe , are not in so forward a state , on their exit from the egg , as the young of the ground - breeding gallinacea . " -- Martin , Art . Poultry , p . 567 . These statements are not borne out by ...
Page 456
... young , 36 ; young of , 7 ; feed their own young , 35 ; helplessness of their young , 64 ; rapid growth of young , 109 . PIGEONS , Almond Tumbler , 115 ; American , 15 , 215 ; Archangels , 99 ; Australian , 190 ; Bald - Pates , 119 ...
... young , 36 ; young of , 7 ; feed their own young , 35 ; helplessness of their young , 64 ; rapid growth of young , 109 . PIGEONS , Almond Tumbler , 115 ; American , 15 , 215 ; Archangels , 99 ; Australian , 190 ; Bald - Pates , 119 ...
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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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