The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 49National Geographic Society, 1926 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... ( background ) , Helmet ( left foreground ) , Nun ( right ) . The Jacobins and Nuns are two very old varieties wholly dissimilar in appearance . Hashime Murayama National Geographic Society RACING HOMERS Painting from life. IV.
... ( background ) , Helmet ( left foreground ) , Nun ( right ) . The Jacobins and Nuns are two very old varieties wholly dissimilar in appearance . Hashime Murayama National Geographic Society RACING HOMERS Painting from life. IV.
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... appearance , with plenty of room between the eyes for a keen brain . The eyes , covered by three lids , should be prominent and bright and should look straight ahead . When flying conditions are normal , all lids are open , but in bad ...
... appearance , with plenty of room between the eyes for a keen brain . The eyes , covered by three lids , should be prominent and bright and should look straight ahead . When flying conditions are normal , all lids are open , but in bad ...
Page 93
... appearance of containing but one feather . Pigeon flyers watch the molt , or chang- ing of feathers , closely . When a bird is six weeks old it begins to drop its nest feathers and its first set of adult feathers begins to appear . It ...
... appearance of containing but one feather . Pigeon flyers watch the molt , or chang- ing of feathers , closely . When a bird is six weeks old it begins to drop its nest feathers and its first set of adult feathers begins to appear . It ...
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... appearance , are shown in Color Plate IV . The Jacobin has a hood which , in finely developed specimens , makes it almost impossible to see the head . Nuns have only a small hood , called a " shell crest " in pigeon ter- minology . The ...
... appearance , are shown in Color Plate IV . The Jacobin has a hood which , in finely developed specimens , makes it almost impossible to see the head . Nuns have only a small hood , called a " shell crest " in pigeon ter- minology . The ...
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... appearance now , they would be driven out of the lofts of modern . Tumbler fan- ciers as aliens . ANCESTORS OF THE TUMBLER WERE ACROBATS This pigeon derives its name from the ability of its ancestors to turn somer- saults while flying ...
... appearance now , they would be driven out of the lofts of modern . Tumbler fan- ciers as aliens . ANCESTORS OF THE TUMBLER WERE ACROBATS This pigeon derives its name from the ability of its ancestors to turn somer- saults while flying ...
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Page 67 - I heard a stock-dove sing or say His homely tale, this very day; His voice was buried among trees, Yet to be come at by the breeze; He did not cease, but cooed and cooed, And somewhat pensively he wooed; He sang of love, with quiet blending, Slow to begin and never ending; Of serious faith and inward glee, That was the song, the song for me.
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Page 611 - summit was ever seen, we took the liberty of giving it a name. It will appear on our maps as Mount Logan, in honor of Sir William E. Logan, founder and long director of the Geological Survey of Canada.