 ' so called because they can, and usually do, by attracting the air, blow up their crops to that strange bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside ; and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring noise, swell their throats...  Fancy pigeons - Page 274de James C. Lyell - 1881Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 390 pages
...blow up their crops to that strange bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside ; and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring...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... | |
 | William Bernhard Tegetmeier - 1868 - 234 pages
...blow up their crops to that strange bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside ; and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring...noise, swell their throats to a great bigness, and tho bigger, the better and more generous they are esteemed. Those I saw at Mr. Cope's, a citizen of... | |
 | William Bernhard Tegetmeier - 1873 - 246 pages
...blow up their crops to that strange bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body beside ; and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring...better and more generous they are esteemed. Those I saw at Mr. Cope's, a citizen of London, living in Jewin Street, seemed to me nothing bigger, but... | |
 | Temperate regions - 1882 - 268 pages
...blow up their crops to that strange bigness, that they exceed the bulk of the whole body besides ; and which, as they fly, and while they make that murmuring...bigger the better and more generous they are esteemed." Their appearance, when the crop is thus inflated, strikes us as pre-eminently ridiculous ; especially... | |
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