Moubray's Treatise on Domestic and Ornamental Poultry: A Practical Guide to the History, Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, Fattening, and General Management of Fowls and PigeonsArthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, 1854 - 504 pagina's |
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Pagina 51
... described as ornamental poultry . The wild breeds of those species are generally known as Game , and include pheasants , partridges , grouse , water - fowl , & c . : which are objects of pursuit for pleasure to the sportsman , and also ...
... described as ornamental poultry . The wild breeds of those species are generally known as Game , and include pheasants , partridges , grouse , water - fowl , & c . : which are objects of pursuit for pleasure to the sportsman , and also ...
Pagina 61
... described , no attention being paid to the employment of appropriate words in which to delineate them , and as a necessary consequence , the most absurd ideas are conveyed ; the terms now in vogue giving only a faint idea ( and often ...
... described , no attention being paid to the employment of appropriate words in which to delineate them , and as a necessary consequence , the most absurd ideas are conveyed ; the terms now in vogue giving only a faint idea ( and often ...
Pagina 62
... described ) ought never to be used , -un- less indeed every other mode of expression fails , when of course the nearest approximate idea must be adopted : but even in that case the name of the fowl selected as a comparative should not ...
... described ) ought never to be used , -un- less indeed every other mode of expression fails , when of course the nearest approximate idea must be adopted : but even in that case the name of the fowl selected as a comparative should not ...
Pagina 65
... described by Dampier and Marsden in their voyages and travels : and from these sources it has been subse- F quently more fully described by Temminck . It is a DOMESTIC POULTRY , 65.
... described by Dampier and Marsden in their voyages and travels : and from these sources it has been subse- F quently more fully described by Temminck . It is a DOMESTIC POULTRY , 65.
Pagina 66
... described by Temminck . It is a native of Java and Sumatra , whence it has been introduced by the Mussulmen into India and Hin- dostan . Though wild it has been domesticated in the latter country , and is frequently met with in that ...
... described by Temminck . It is a native of Java and Sumatra , whence it has been introduced by the Mussulmen into India and Hin- dostan . Though wild it has been domesticated in the latter country , and is frequently met with in that ...
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