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... facts , hybrids that are fertile are even then saved from being posterityless ( to coin a word ) only by their progeny ... fact in the case of Domestic Fowls . Any analogies from plants must be cautiously applied to animals ; but even in ...
... facts , hybrids that are fertile are even then saved from being posterityless ( to coin a word ) only by their progeny ... fact in the case of Domestic Fowls . Any analogies from plants must be cautiously applied to animals ; but even in ...
Page xii
... fact of the race of Pheasants having been really and permanently incorporated with Fowls , so as to originate a mixed race capable of con- tinuation with itself ; but with many that prove the extreme improbability of such a thing ...
... fact of the race of Pheasants having been really and permanently incorporated with Fowls , so as to originate a mixed race capable of con- tinuation with itself ; but with many that prove the extreme improbability of such a thing ...
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... fact that the embryos , of even distinct orders , are closely and fundamentally alike each other . But if these embryotic similarities between birds and any other class of creatures be sought for , the time of the exclusion of the chick ...
... fact that the embryos , of even distinct orders , are closely and fundamentally alike each other . But if these embryotic similarities between birds and any other class of creatures be sought for , the time of the exclusion of the chick ...
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... fact . Professor Low , speaking of the effects of domestication on birds , says , — " The Swan , the noblest of all water- fowls , becomes chained , as it were , to our lakes and ponds , by the mere change of his natural form ...
... fact . Professor Low , speaking of the effects of domestication on birds , says , — " The Swan , the noblest of all water- fowls , becomes chained , as it were , to our lakes and ponds , by the mere change of his natural form ...
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... . One would doubt the fact of so large a bird as the Swan falling a victim to a wretched little weasel . But a relation of mine had a pair of Canada Geese , birds little inferior in size to the Swan , which in 22 THE MUTE SWAN .
... . One would doubt the fact of so large a bird as the Swan falling a victim to a wretched little weasel . But a relation of mine had a pair of Canada Geese , birds little inferior in size to the Swan , which in 22 THE MUTE SWAN .
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Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History and Management Edmund Saul Dixon No preview available - 2015 |
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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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