. Birds of the Bible . )lyecjually to either by one not skillful in bird notes, andI have not a doubt but the cages that Jesus removed fromthe temple contained almost as many pigeons as doves. The records of no otlur country show that ])igeonswere so housed and ])rotected as in Bible lands; ami itmay be from centuries of such intimacy with them thatmen of those nations are to-day the breeders ol the fhiest. ^ ?J. TIIK riGKOX 4:39 pigeons in the whole world. Tlurc was originated tlierare black carrier, the trumpeter, and the fantail. Pliny wrote of pigeons under the heading of liouse-doves. He
. Birds of the Bible . )lyecjually to either by one not skillful in bird notes, andI have not a doubt but the cages that Jesus removed fromthe temple contained almost as many pigeons as doves. The records of no otlur country show that ])igeonswere so housed and ])rotected as in Bible lands; ami itmay be from centuries of such intimacy with them thatmen of those nations are to-day the breeders ol the fhiest. ^ ?J. TIIK riGKOX 4:39 pigeons in the whole world. Tlurc was originated tlierare black carrier, the trumpeter, and the fantail. Pliny wrote of pigeons under the heading of liouse-doves. He recorded their faithful lifi in pairs, andall the things which other observers have to sav of thesebirds. He was of the opinion that the male was a littlemore harsh and imperious, than any historian withwhose work I am familiar. Among jjoints not connnonlynoted he said, So soon as the eggs be hatched, yeshall see them at the very first spit into the mouths ofthe young pigeons salt and brackish earth, which theyhave gathered in their throat, thereby to prepare theirappetite to meat and to season their stomachs against thetime that they should eat. He made a note concerningtheir manner of drinking not often mentioned: House-doves and turtle-doves have this property, in their drink-ing not to hold up their bills between whiles, and drawtheir necks back, but to take a large draught at once ashorses and
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