 Not far from Shelbyville, in the State of Kentucky, about five years ago, there was one of these breeding-places, which stretched through the woods in nearly a north and south direction, was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty...  the cultivator - Page 351by luther tucker and son - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Cyclopaedias - 1831 - 484 pages
...; was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever...with their young, before the twenty-fifth of May. " To form a rough estimate," continues Mr. Wilson, " of the daily consumption of one of these immense... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 380 pages
...was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever...pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the 2oth of May. As soon as the young... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - Birds - 1832 - 472 pages
...\vas several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent! In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever...pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th of May. As soon as the young... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Domestic animals - 1833 - 478 pages
...; was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent. In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever...and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th of May. " To form a rough estimate," continues Mr. Wilson, " of the daily consumption of one of... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 474 pages
...; was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent. In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever...and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th of May. " To form a rough estimate," continues Mr. Wilson, " of the daily consumption of one of... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Birds - 1835 - 604 pages
...direction, was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever...pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April." Audubon observes, that a hundred nests or more are frequently to be seen on one tree,... | |
 | John Wesley - Natural history - 1836 - 414 pages
...was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever...pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April, and left it altogether with their young, before the 25th of May." There is no migration... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - Animals - 1840 - 236 pages
...which was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent. In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever the branches could accommodate them. " As soon as the young were fully grown, and before they left the nests, numerous parties of the inhabitants,... | |
 | Journal - India - 1844 - 280 pages
...; was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent. In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever...pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April, and left it altogether, with their young, about the 25th of June. As soon as the young... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...and south direction, several miles in breadth, and upwards of forty miles in extent. In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever...branches could accommodate them. The pigeons made their appearance there about the 10th of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th... | |
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