Pigeons: Their Structure, Varieties, Habits, and Management, Volume 101 |
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PIGEONS W. B. (William Bernhard) 18 Tegetmeier,Harrison 1824-1906 Weir, Ill,Elisha Former Owner Dsi Hanson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 183 - Pigeon, under such Circumstances as shall not amount to Larceny at Common Law, every such Offender, being convicted thereof before a Justice of the Peace, shall forfeit and pay, over and above the Value of the Bird, any Sum not exceeding Two Pounds.
Page 43 - Others let them breed in partitions entirely open in front, for the greater convenience of cleaning out their nests. I find by experience, that nests made on the floor are much more convenient than otherwise, if the loft will admit of it, for it prevents the young ones...
Page 173 - Main ? it is clean footed and legg'd and always black, or blue pied. When it is salacious, it rises over its Hen and turns round three or four Times, flapping its Wings, then reverses and turns as many the other Way.
Page 6 - Primaries ; those which form the middle of the vane are called the Secondaries ; and those which are next the body of the Bird are called the Tertiaries. The motion of a Bird's wing increases from its minimum at the shoulder-joint to its maximum at the tip. The primary quills which form the termination of the wing are those on which the chief burden of flight is cast. Each feather has less and less weight to bear, and less and less force to exert, in proportion as it lies...
Page 33 - Salvator had four children ; they were two boys, a girl, and another boy : the first two boys and the girl were six-fingered and six-toed like their grandfather ; the fourth boy had ' only five fingers and five toes. George had...
Page 32 - ... certain particular. Now let us go back to Atavism, — to the hereditary tendency I spoke of. What will come of a variation when you breed from it, when Atavism comes, if I may say so, to intersect variation ? The two cases of which I have mentioned the history, give a most excellent illustration of what occurs.
Page 54 - ... 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.
Page 28 - ... livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. As several of the reasons which have led me to this belief are in some degree applicable in other cases, I will here briefly give them.
Page 36 - I mention the fact because it has been disputed by what is assumed to be high authority, — the variation in number of the sacral vertebrae. The number of these varies from eleven to fourteen, and that without any diminution in the number of the vertebrae of the back or of the tail. Then the number and position of the tail-feathers may vary enormously, and so may the number of the primary and secondary feathers of the wings. Again, the length of the feet and of the beak,— although they have no...
Page 33 - Andre, you will recollect, was perfectly well-formed, and he had many children whose hands and feet were all regularly developed. Marie, the last, who, of course, married a man who had only five fingers, had four children : the first, a boy, was born with six toes, but the other three were normal.