The Natural History of SelborneConstable and Company, 1829 - 343 pages |
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... Dove , Ring PAGE . 202 152 , 155 , 245 10 54 , 73 , 108 , 321 21 , 50 102 97 , 23 319 137 • 134 93 · 262 , 323 7 18 35 163 91 , 97 , 168 37 307 274 · 34 , 56 Forest of Wolmer 19 Forest Fly 192 Fossil Shell 11 Fossil Wood 320 Fowls ...
... Dove , Ring PAGE . 202 152 , 155 , 245 10 54 , 73 , 108 , 321 21 , 50 102 97 , 23 319 137 • 134 93 · 262 , 323 7 18 35 163 91 , 97 , 168 37 307 274 · 34 , 56 Forest of Wolmer 19 Forest Fly 192 Fossil Shell 11 Fossil Wood 320 Fowls ...
Page 134
... dove . We very rarely see the latter settle on trees at all , nor does it ever haunt the woods ; but the former , as long as it stays with us , from November perhaps to February , lives the same wild life with the ring - dove , palumbus ...
... dove . We very rarely see the latter settle on trees at all , nor does it ever haunt the woods ; but the former , as long as it stays with us , from November perhaps to February , lives the same wild life with the ring - dove , palumbus ...
Page 135
... dove with the ring - dove . For my own part , I readily concur with you in supposing that house - doves are derived from the small blue rock - pigeon , for many reasons . In the first place , the wild stock - dove is manifestly larger ...
... dove with the ring - dove . For my own part , I readily concur with you in supposing that house - doves are derived from the small blue rock - pigeon , for many reasons . In the first place , the wild stock - dove is manifestly larger ...
Page 137
... ring- dove , to place them under a pair of doves that were sitting in his own pigeon - house , hoping thereby , if he could bring about a coalition , to enlarge his breed , and teach his own doves to beat out into the woods , and to ...
... ring- dove , to place them under a pair of doves that were sitting in his own pigeon - house , hoping thereby , if he could bring about a coalition , to enlarge his breed , and teach his own doves to beat out into the woods , and to ...
Page 149
... Ring - dove , tus . April . of March . Hatches in April . Palumbus torqua - Lays the beginning of All birds that continue in full song till after midsummer , appear to me to breed more than once . Most kinds of birds seem to me to be ...
... Ring - dove , tus . April . of March . Hatches in April . Palumbus torqua - Lays the beginning of All birds that continue in full song till after midsummer , appear to me to breed more than once . Most kinds of birds seem to me to be ...
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