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... Society . Hens are made of flesh and blood , not of wood , hot water , iron , and macintosh . Whenever I have over- tasked the incubating powers of Hens , they have invariably suffered for it afterwards : it has taken them the whole ...
... Society . Hens are made of flesh and blood , not of wood , hot water , iron , and macintosh . Whenever I have over- tasked the incubating powers of Hens , they have invariably suffered for it afterwards : it has taken them the whole ...
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... Society , " have so well described and figured the Java species that I need not here particularise its striking peculiarities . Living Japan Pea - fowl are now ( June , 1848 ) to be seen in London . In the Zoological Gardens they are ...
... Society , " have so well described and figured the Java species that I need not here particularise its striking peculiarities . Living Japan Pea - fowl are now ( June , 1848 ) to be seen in London . In the Zoological Gardens they are ...
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... societies could now offer to the proprietors of limited portions of fluvial and lacustrine waters . The following extract may give a valuable hint ; unfor- tunately it does not state whether the pinioning knife had been used . " At the ...
... societies could now offer to the proprietors of limited portions of fluvial and lacustrine waters . The following extract may give a valuable hint ; unfor- tunately it does not state whether the pinioning knife had been used . " At the ...
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... society , but determined never to enlist in the drilled and disciplined ranks , playing the game of " off and on , " but always ending with the " off . " Such are , among many others , the Partridge , Rats and Mice , the House Sparrow ...
... society , but determined never to enlist in the drilled and disciplined ranks , playing the game of " off and on , " but always ending with the " off . " Such are , among many others , the Partridge , Rats and Mice , the House Sparrow ...
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... society : in due time they made their nest and laid . Great were the expectations ; such a plenty of eggs ! both Swans assi- duous in sitting - rather suspicious that - the produce addle - eggs . The two ladies could not raise up a ...
... society : in due time they made their nest and laid . Great were the expectations ; such a plenty of eggs ! both Swans assi- duous in sitting - rather suspicious that - the produce addle - eggs . The two ladies could not raise up a ...
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Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History and Management Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2015 |
Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History and Management Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2016 |
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Aldrovandi animals appearance Aurochs Bantam beauty become believe birds breed Brent Goose brood brown called Canada Goose chickens chicks China Goose Cochin-China Cockerel Cocks and Hens colour Columella comb creatures crest Cygnets ditto Domestic Fowl Domestic Goose Dorking eggs Egyptian Goose feathers feeding feet female flesh gallinaceous Gardener Geese give Golden Goslings grass grey Guinea-fowl habits Hamburgh hatched head Hercynian forests hybrids incubation insects instance Jungle Fowl keep laid legs less Malay male Mallard mother moulting Muscovy Duck Musk Duck natural neck nest never Norfolk occasionally original pair Pea-fowl peculiar perhaps Pheasant Pigeons plumage Poland Polish pond poultry produced Pullet quæ race reared season seen shell sometimes soon sort Spanish species specimens supply Swan tail thing top-knots Turkey variety wild wings young Zoological δὲ καὶ
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