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... Turkey 81 The Guinea - fowl 106 THE COLUMBINE , OR PIGEON GROUP 113 The Domestic Pigeon 120 The Rock Pigeon 121 The Carrier , or Horseman 133 The Dragoon , or Dragon The Pouter The Barb The Fan - tail 143 143 145 145 The Jacobine , or ...
... Turkey 81 The Guinea - fowl 106 THE COLUMBINE , OR PIGEON GROUP 113 The Domestic Pigeon 120 The Rock Pigeon 121 The Carrier , or Horseman 133 The Dragoon , or Dragon The Pouter The Barb The Fan - tail 143 143 145 145 The Jacobine , or ...
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... Turkey ) Page 27 28 31 32 37 37 37 69 81 Meleagris ocellata -- ( The Honduras Turkey ) 105 Numida Meleagris- ( The Guinea - fowl , or Pintado ) Columba livia- ( The Rock Pigeon ) Anas sponsa- ( The Summer , or Wood Duck of America ) ...
... Turkey ) Page 27 28 31 32 37 37 37 69 81 Meleagris ocellata -- ( The Honduras Turkey ) 105 Numida Meleagris- ( The Guinea - fowl , or Pintado ) Columba livia- ( The Rock Pigeon ) Anas sponsa- ( The Summer , or Wood Duck of America ) ...
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... turkey , we cannot , as a matter of course , find any allusion to them in the Scriptures ; but it is some- what strange that the pheasant , from the borders of the Phasis and the country around the Euxine , and so remarkable for beauty ...
... turkey , we cannot , as a matter of course , find any allusion to them in the Scriptures ; but it is some- what strange that the pheasant , from the borders of the Phasis and the country around the Euxine , and so remarkable for beauty ...
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... turkey , etc. , are examples ; secondly , the Columbine , or pigeon group , of which our domestic species are limited in number ; and thirdly , the Aquatio group , domestic waterfowl , of which the swan , duck , and goose are familiar ...
... turkey , etc. , are examples ; secondly , the Columbine , or pigeon group , of which our domestic species are limited in number ; and thirdly , the Aquatio group , domestic waterfowl , of which the swan , duck , and goose are familiar ...
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... turkey we see the naked carunculated appendages much more extensive . To the present group of birds one par- ticularity in their internal structure is a strong muscular gizzard , lined with a tough leathery membrane . By the action of ...
... turkey we see the naked carunculated appendages much more extensive . To the present group of birds one par- ticularity in their internal structure is a strong muscular gizzard , lined with a tough leathery membrane . By the action of ...
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Page 14 - I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 14 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me...
Page 14 - I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
Page 191 - But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Page 46 - Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Page 8 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Page 117 - ... as the pigeon grows older, the proportion of common food is increased ; so that by the time it is seven, eight, or nine days old, the secretion of the curd ceases in the old ones, and of course no more will be found in the crop of the young.
Page 89 - Canada, and the now densely peopled parts of the United States, wild turkeys were formerly very abundant ; but, like the Indian and 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...
Page 96 - The mother will not leave her eggs, when near hatching, under any circumstances, while life remains. She will even allow an enclosure to be made around her, and thus suffer imprisonment, rather than abandon them. I once witnessed the hatching of a brood of Turkeys, which I watched for the purpose of securing them together with the parent. I concealed myself on the ground within a very few feet, and saw her raise herself half the length of her legs, look anxiously upon the eggs, cluck with a sound...
Page 129 - O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.