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Page 27
... means good mothers of families , even when they do sit , which they will not often condescend to do , proving very careless , and frequently trampling half their brood underfoot . But the inconveniences of this habit are easily obviated ...
... means good mothers of families , even when they do sit , which they will not often condescend to do , proving very careless , and frequently trampling half their brood underfoot . But the inconveniences of this habit are easily obviated ...
Page 28
... means of preventing this disfigurement . The chicks are large , as would be expected from such eggs , entirely shining black , except a pinafore of white on the breast , and a slight sprinkling under the chin , with sometimes also a ...
... means of preventing this disfigurement . The chicks are large , as would be expected from such eggs , entirely shining black , except a pinafore of white on the breast , and a slight sprinkling under the chin , with sometimes also a ...
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... means at command , are exceptions so rare , as to con- firm the rule that such mules are barren , and incapable of founding a family , and becoming the ancestors of a distinct race . A correspondent in the London Agri- cultural Gazette ...
... means at command , are exceptions so rare , as to con- firm the rule that such mules are barren , and incapable of founding a family , and becoming the ancestors of a distinct race . A correspondent in the London Agri- cultural Gazette ...
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... has great courage ; but if it be pale and wan , it denotes him to be defective in these material particulars . " The game cock is by no means the aggressive san- guinary tyrant that he is commonly represented to be . 46 THE DOMESTIC FOWL .
... has great courage ; but if it be pale and wan , it denotes him to be defective in these material particulars . " The game cock is by no means the aggressive san- guinary tyrant that he is commonly represented to be . 46 THE DOMESTIC FOWL .
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... means of affording important service to natural history . Dr. Bechstein , of Germany , seems to have been not far from suspecting that several distinct varieties might be de- tected amongst the ordinary fowls of the farmyard . It might ...
... means of affording important service to natural history . Dr. Bechstein , of Germany , seems to have been not far from suspecting that several distinct varieties might be de- tected amongst the ordinary fowls of the farmyard . It might ...
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Aldrovandi animals appearance Bantam barley beauty birds boiled breed brood Canada goose capons chickens chicks China goose Cochin-China cockerel cocks and hens cold color Columella comb common fowl confined coop costiveness covered creatures crest cross ditto domestic fowls domestic goose domestic turkey Dorking duck eggs England English and Anglo-Americans eyes fatten feathers feeding feet female flavor flesh flock Flourens game cock geese give golden grain grey Guinea fowl habits hackles Hamburgh hatched head incubation Indian jungle fowl larvæ layers legs less Malay male membrane mother moulting musk duck natural neck nest observed pea fowl peacock pheasant pint measures plumage Polands Polish poultry poultry yard produced pullet race rearing Réaumur render roost rump says season shell skin sometimes sort species swan tail Temminck tion variety warm wattles wild turkey wings yolk young
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Page 6 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Page 6 - Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep ; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine : yet for all this required not I the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.
Page 14 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Page 311 - But the master soon recollecting that so many eggs are worth a dollar or a crown, casts his eye towards the rock, marks the day in his memory and gives orders to depart. The light breeze enables them to reach another...
Page 230 - Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. Meanwhile the tepid caves, and fens, and shores, Their brood as numerous hatch from the egg, that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed Their callow young ; but feathered soon and fledge, They summed their pens, and soaring the...
Page 182 - And I speak within bounds when I assert, that there could not be less than twelve or fifteen hundred pea-fowls, of various sizes, within sight of the spot where I stood for near an hour.
Page 230 - The earth obeyed, and straight Opening her fertile womb teemed at a birth Innumerous living creatures, perfect forms, Limbed and full grown: out of the ground up rose As from his lair the wild beast where he wons In" forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den...
Page 180 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 150 - Indian buffalo, they have been compelled to yield to the destructive ingenuity of the white settlers, often wantonly exercised, and seek refuge in the remotest parts of the interior. Although they relinquish their native soil with slow and reluctant steps, yet such is the rapidity with which settlements are extended and condensed over the surface of this country, that we may anticipate a day, at no distant period, when the hunter will seek the wild turkey in vain.
Page 144 - ... proceed rapidly towards the shore: on approaching which, should they find it too steep for landing, they cease their exertions for a few moments, float down the stream until they come to an accessible part, and' by a violent effort generally extricate themselves from the water. It is remarkable, that immediately after thus crossing a large stream, they ramble about for some time, as if bewildered. In this state they fall an easy prey to the hunter.