Ornamental and Domestic Poultry: Their History, and ManagementGardeners' Chronicle, 1848 - 345 Seiten |
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... plumage in some measure resembles that of the Cock Pheasant , are therefore hybrid individuals , are too vague to be listened to , in the absence of clearer evidence , which is not yet forthcoming . But it will not be easy to eradicate ...
... plumage in some measure resembles that of the Cock Pheasant , are therefore hybrid individuals , are too vague to be listened to , in the absence of clearer evidence , which is not yet forthcoming . But it will not be easy to eradicate ...
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... plumage ; nor do they so frequently engage with each other as with birds of a different species , such as Drakes , Cocks , & c . One , out of feather , was seen to keep up a three hours ' struggle with a Musk Drake ; had it been in full ...
... plumage ; nor do they so frequently engage with each other as with birds of a different species , such as Drakes , Cocks , & c . One , out of feather , was seen to keep up a three hours ' struggle with a Musk Drake ; had it been in full ...
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... plumage resembling the original sort . The White have the ocellated spots on the tail faintly visible . These last are tender , and are much prized by those who prefer rarity to real beauty . They are occa- sionally produced by birds of ...
... plumage resembling the original sort . The White have the ocellated spots on the tail faintly visible . These last are tender , and are much prized by those who prefer rarity to real beauty . They are occa- sionally produced by birds of ...
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... plumage all over her body , and she has scarcely any glistening feathers on the neck ; her size is also inferior , and her proportions more slender . The records of the introduction of the Java Pea - fowl into Europe are clear and ...
... plumage all over her body , and she has scarcely any glistening feathers on the neck ; her size is also inferior , and her proportions more slender . The records of the introduction of the Java Pea - fowl into Europe are clear and ...
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... plumage and flesh as the common sort , would be one of the most valuable boons which the great London societies could now offer to the proprietors of limited portions of fluvial and lacustrine waters . The following extract may give a ...
... plumage and flesh as the common sort , would be one of the most valuable boons which the great London societies could now offer to the proprietors of limited portions of fluvial and lacustrine waters . The following extract may give a ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 240 - And upon a set day, Herod arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying ; It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Seite 26 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.
Seite 139 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.
Seite 167 - ... 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...
Seite 199 - ... would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality...
Seite 140 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Seite 200 - When thou hidest thy face they are troubled : when thou takest away their breath they die, and are turned again to their dust.
Seite 13 - 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...
Seite 327 - Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too!
Seite 257 - tried many experiments by breeding in-and-in, upon dogs, fowls, and pigeons; the dogs became from strong spaniels, weak and diminutive lapdogs; the fowls became long in the legs, small in the body, and bad feeders.