 | Charles Smith - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1815 - 446 pages
...bladder. Among all the variety of (Sine Pigeons, these following arc most remarkable. 1. Croppers, so called because they can and usually do, by attracting...bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body besides. 'I, Fan-tailed, (or as Willoughby calls them) Broadtailed Shakers ; they commonly hold their... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 390 pages
...but an old name for them, as Willoughby says, ' They are so called because they can, and generally do, by attracting the air, blow up their crops to...bigger the better and more generous they are esteemed.' If a fancier wishes to form a judgement of the merits of one of these Pigeons, he puts his mouth to... | |
 | James C. Lyell - 1881 - 412 pages
...time when we have any records on the subject. It is referred to by Willnghby as follows : " Croppers, so called because they can, and usually do, by attracting...that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside. A certain Hollander informed Aldrovandus that these Kropjmrs Dv/ue, as they call them, are twice as... | |
 | Temperate regions - Natural history - 1882 - 268 pages
...their old name of Croppers. As Willoughby says : " They are so called because they can, and generally do, by attracting the air, blow up their crops to...bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body besides ; and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring noise, swell their throats to... | |
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... and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring noise, swell their throats to a great bigness, and the bigger the better and more generous they are esteemed. 