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" ... increase of weight, though its feathers had grown longer and smoother. Its food had been weighed daily, and averaged fifteen dwt. of meat, two or three earthworms, and a small quantity of bread each day; the whole being equal to eighteen dwt. of beef,... "
Report - Page 313
by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1873
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Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History, Volume 6

Boston Society of Natural History - Natural history - 1859 - 474 pages
...his own absence of eighteen days ; at the end of that period the bird was strong and healthy, with no increase of weight, though its feathers had grown...earth-worms ; and it has continued to eat this amount to the present time. The bird having continued, in its confinement, with certainly much less exercise...
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The Repository, Volume 1

New London (Conn.) - 1858 - 434 pages
...Professor, " ita food was weighed rlnily, and averaged fifteen dwts. of meat, two or three eartb worms, and a small quantity of bread each day; the whole...earthworms ; and it has continued to eat this amount to tho present time. The bird having continued in its confinement, with certainly much less exercise...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1859 - 450 pages
...his own absence of eighteen days ; at the end of that period the bird was strong and healthy, with no increase of weight, though its feathers had grown...earth-worms; and it has continued to eat this amount to the present time. The bird having continued, in its confinement, with certainly much less exercise...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1859 - 448 pages
...thongh its feathers had grown longer and smoother. Its food had been weighed daily, and averaged flfteen dwt. of meat, two or three earthworms, and a small...earth-worms ; and it has continued to eat this amount to the present time. The bird having continued, in its confinement, with certainly much less exercise...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art ...

Industrial arts - 1859 - 478 pages
...daily, and averaged fifteen dwt. of meat, two or three earthworms, and a small quantity of bread eaeh day ; the whole being equal to eighteen dwt. of beef, or thirty-six dwt. of earth-worms ; and it has eontinued to eat this amonnt to the present time. The bird having eontinued, in its eonfinement, with...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1859 - 348 pages
...dwt. of meat, two or three earthworms, and a small qnantity of bread eaeh day; the whole being eqnal to eighteen dwt. of beef, or thirty-six dwt. of earth-worms ; and it has eontinned to eat this amonnt to the present time. The bird having eontinned, in its eonfinement, with...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 8

United States. Congress. House - United States - 846 pages
...at the end of that period the bird was strong and healthy, with an increase of weight, though i ta feathers had grown longer and smoother. Its food had...has continued to eat this amount until the present tune. The bird having continued, in its confinement, with certainly mach less exercise than in the...
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Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...

United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1868 - 618 pages
...the bird had obtained its full size. Its food had been weighed daily, and averaged 15 pennyweights, two or three earth-worms, and a small quantity of bread each day, the whole being equal to 18 pennyweights of meat, or 36 pennyweights of earth-worms. Wo have seen that during the month of Juno...
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Report, Volume 3

New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1873 - 712 pages
...absence of eighteen days; at the end of that period the bird was strong and healthy, with an increase ot weight, though its feathers had grown longer and smoother....certainly much less exercise than in the wild state, to eat one-third of its weight of olean flesh daily, he concludes that the food it consumed when young...
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The Birds of New England and Adjacent States: Containing Descriptions of the ...

Edward Augustus Samuels - Birds - 1883 - 666 pages
...longer and smoother. Its food had been weighed daily, and averaged fifteen pennyweights of weight, two or three earthworms, and a small quantity of bread each day, the whole being equal to eighteen pennyweights of meat, or thirty-six pennyweights of earthworms ; and it continued up to the time of...
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