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... 143 The Tumbler 148 The Almond , or Ermine Tumbler 149 THE SWIMMING , OR NATATORIAL GROUP 150 The Domestic Duck 154 The Domestic Goose 165 The Tame Swan , or Mute Swan 181 Conclusion 189 CONTENTS . - No . II . Gallus Domesticus- (
... 143 The Tumbler 148 The Almond , or Ermine Tumbler 149 THE SWIMMING , OR NATATORIAL GROUP 150 The Domestic Duck 154 The Domestic Goose 165 The Tame Swan , or Mute Swan 181 Conclusion 189 CONTENTS . - No . II . Gallus Domesticus- (
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... Duck of America ) Anas- ( Domestic Duck ) • Anas moschata- ( Muscovy Duck ) · 106 121 · 154 154 163 Anser erythropus - Flem . Anser albifrons - Bechst . } ( The White - fronted Goose ) 165 • Anser ferus - Flem . Anser segetum - Steph ...
... Duck of America ) Anas- ( Domestic Duck ) • Anas moschata- ( Muscovy Duck ) · 106 121 · 154 154 163 Anser erythropus - Flem . Anser albifrons - Bechst . } ( The White - fronted Goose ) 165 • Anser ferus - Flem . Anser segetum - Steph ...
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... ducks were kept by the Egyptians , who esteemed their flesh as food . Perhaps the pigeon may be excepted . We read of a turtle - dove , and " young pigeon " as being sacrificed by Abraham in Gen. xv . 9 , and we read in the Levitical ...
... ducks were kept by the Egyptians , who esteemed their flesh as food . Perhaps the pigeon may be excepted . We read of a turtle - dove , and " young pigeon " as being sacrificed by Abraham in Gen. xv . 9 , and we read in the Levitical ...
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... meats ; but though the Divinely di rected legislator must have been well ac- quainted with the goose and duck , birds kept , as we have said , in great abundance in Egypt , no mention is made of them , nor know we INTRODUCTION . 15.
... meats ; but though the Divinely di rected legislator must have been well ac- quainted with the goose and duck , birds kept , as we have said , in great abundance in Egypt , no mention is made of them , nor know we INTRODUCTION . 15.
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... ducks in the present day are rarely to be met with in Syria , or western Asia generally . They are not in demand . among the Moslems , who rarely eat them . With respect to those domestic birds , originally imported from central Africa ...
... ducks in the present day are rarely to be met with in Syria , or western Asia generally . They are not in demand . among the Moslems , who rarely eat them . With respect to those domestic birds , originally imported from central Africa ...
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Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 8 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.