 | luther tucker and son - 1864 - 364 páginas
...direction ; was several miles in breadth and wan said to be upwards of forty miles in extent! In this track almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever...pigeons made their first appearance there about the tenth of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the twenty-fifth of May. "As scon... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 564 páginas
...wonder, as the following account of the gathering of a " pigeon-crop," by Wilson, will show : — " As soon as the young were fully grown, and before they left the nest, numerous parties of the inhabitants from all parts of the adjacent country came with waggons,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 602 páginas
...nearly a north and south direction, was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent! In this tract, almost every tree...pigeons made their first appearance there about the loth of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the z5th of May. As soon as the young... | |
 | 1902 - 500 páginas
...nearly a North and South direction, was several miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of forty miles in extent ! In this tract almost every tree...could accommodate them. The Pigeons made their first appeaiance there about the loth of April, and left it altogether with their young before the 25th of... | |
 | 1911 - 630 páginas
...of these breeding-places, which was several miles in breadth, and upwards of forty miles in length. In this tract, almost every tree was furnished with nests, wherever the branches could accomodate them. The pigeons made their first appearance there about the 10th of April, and left it... | |
 | Kentucky Geological Survey - 1925 - 416 páginas
...miles in breadth, and was said to be upwards of •Wilson, Alexander. American Ornithology 1810. forty miles in extent! In this tract almost every tree was...accommodate them. The pigeons made their first appearance about the 10th of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th day of May. As soon... | |
 | 1925 - 414 páginas
...furnished with nests, wherever the branches could accommodate them. The pigeons made their first appearance about the 10th of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th day of May. As soon as the young were fully grown, and before they left the nests, numerous parties... | |
 | Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba - 1905 - 16 páginas
...several miles in breadth and upwards of forty miles In extent. In this tract almost every tree was filled with nests wherever the branches could accommodate them. The pigeons made their appearance about April 10th and left it altogether with their young by May 25. As soon as the young... | |
 | 1913 - 618 páginas
...wherever the branches could accommodate them. The pigeons made their first appearance there about the loth of April, and left it altogether, with their young, before the 25th of May" (Hinton). Of their former numbers in New England, in 1741, Richard Hazen made this record: "For three... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 2007 - 517 páginas
...upwards of 40 miles in extent. In this tract almost every tree was furnished with nests wherever tho branches could accommodate them. The pigeons made their first appearance there about the I Oth of April, and left it altogether with their young before the 25th of May. As soon as the young... | |
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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... 
