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 5
... known , in the time of Alexander , is clear from the way in which Aristotle compares vain and jealous persons to the peacock - evidently selecting a fami- liar illustration of the foibles he censured . We also gather from the writings ...
... known , in the time of Alexander , is clear from the way in which Aristotle compares vain and jealous persons to the peacock - evidently selecting a fami- liar illustration of the foibles he censured . We also gather from the writings ...
Pagina 7
... nation , than those included in that cosmopolitan species , known par excellence as " COCKS AND HENS . " The repre- sentations of them upon the coins , medals , and gems of the ancients , as also their dedication to DOMESTIC POULTRY .
... nation , than those included in that cosmopolitan species , known par excellence as " COCKS AND HENS . " The repre- sentations of them upon the coins , medals , and gems of the ancients , as also their dedication to DOMESTIC POULTRY .
Pagina 9
... an evil omen ! The only other individual of our domestic fowls that we find noticed by the ancients , is the GUINEA Fowl , known by them as the meleagris , under which term it is mentioned by Ovid , Aristotle , DOMESTIC POULTRY . 9.
... an evil omen ! The only other individual of our domestic fowls that we find noticed by the ancients , is the GUINEA Fowl , known by them as the meleagris , under which term it is mentioned by Ovid , Aristotle , DOMESTIC POULTRY . 9.
Pagina 16
... known as the " Battle Royal , " ( in honour of the regal found- er , ) in which a number of cocks , armed with spurs , were set to fight until one alone survived , to la- ment , as Alexander did , that he had no rival left to conquer ...
... known as the " Battle Royal , " ( in honour of the regal found- er , ) in which a number of cocks , armed with spurs , were set to fight until one alone survived , to la- ment , as Alexander did , that he had no rival left to conquer ...
Pagina 33
... country of the GUINEA - FOWL . Richardson states , on the author- ity of Kennett's Parochial Antiquities , that it was " well known in England as early as the year D 1277 " but of this we have not the slightest DOMESTIC POULTRY . 33.
... country of the GUINEA - FOWL . Richardson states , on the author- ity of Kennett's Parochial Antiquities , that it was " well known in England as early as the year D 1277 " but of this we have not the slightest DOMESTIC POULTRY . 33.
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