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עמוד 46
... north- ern parts of Siberia , and in Iceland is kept only as a rarity . The manners of the ordinary fowl are too well known to require comment , -their mode of scratching the earth in quest of insects , their fondness for dusting their ...
... north- ern parts of Siberia , and in Iceland is kept only as a rarity . The manners of the ordinary fowl are too well known to require comment , -their mode of scratching the earth in quest of insects , their fondness for dusting their ...
עמוד 89
... north- western territory of the United States to the Isthmus of Panama , south of which it is not to be found ; notwithstanding the statements of authors who have mistaken the curassow for it . In Canada , and the densely peopled parts ...
... north- western territory of the United States to the Isthmus of Panama , south of which it is not to be found ; notwithstanding the statements of authors who have mistaken the curassow for it . In Canada , and the densely peopled parts ...
עמוד 90
... north - west of these districts , upon the Missis- sippi and Missouri , and the vast regions drained by these rivers , from their confluence to Louisiana , including the wooded parts of Arkansas , Tennessee , and Alabama , are the most ...
... north - west of these districts , upon the Missis- sippi and Missouri , and the vast regions drained by these rivers , from their confluence to Louisiana , including the wooded parts of Arkansas , Tennessee , and Alabama , are the most ...
עמוד 105
... North America , a distinct species , the Honduras turkey ( Melea- gris ocellata ) is found in certain parts of central America , adjacent to Mexico . The first speci- men , known formerly in Bullock's collection , now in the museum of ...
... North America , a distinct species , the Honduras turkey ( Melea- gris ocellata ) is found in certain parts of central America , adjacent to Mexico . The first speci- men , known formerly in Bullock's collection , now in the museum of ...
עמוד 141
... North America , says that specimens have been killed in the neighbourhood of New York , with their crops full of rice , which must have been collected in the fields of Georgia and Carolina , those districts being the nearest , in which ...
... North America , says that specimens have been killed in the neighbourhood of New York , with their crops full of rice , which must have been collected in the fields of Georgia and Carolina , those districts being the nearest , in which ...
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abundance Africa America ancient animals Anser appears Asia bantam beak beauty Bewick's swan birds breed brood called Canada goose carrier pigeon chick chickens cock colonel Sykes colour comb common fowl crop curd cygnus domestic bird domestic fowl domestic goose domestic pigeon domestic turkey dove-cote dove's dung duck Dukhun eggs Egypt Egyptian goose Egyptians England Europe eyes farm-yard female flesh flocks gallinaceous gallinaceous birds Gallus geese goose grain green ground guinea-fowl habits hatched head incubation India insects island Java Kazeroon known larvæ legs male mandible musk duck native neck nest notice numbers observed ordinary pea-fowl peacock Persia pheasant plucking plumage plumes poulterer powers of flight quill feathers race reared remarkable respect rock-dove Romans roost says season seen skin Sonnerat's species specimens spread strut Sumatra swan tail Temminck tion trees tumbler variety wattles wild turkey windpipe wings young Zool Zoological Society
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 8 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.