The dovecote and the aviary The dovecote and the aviary : being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state : with hints for their management dovecoteaviarybe00dixo Year: [18--.] 58 GKOWTH OF THE SQUABS. [CHAP. II. merit an immunity and free commons till the time of their natural decease. At the end of eighteen days from trn^ laying of the second egg (but the time cannot be invariably fixed within several hours) a young one will appear. Subse- quently, at a short but uncertain interval, sometimes comes another chick, sometimes remains an addle egg.
The dovecote and the aviary The dovecote and the aviary : being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state : with hints for their management dovecoteaviarybe00dixo Year: [18--.] 58 GKOWTH OF THE SQUABS. [CHAP. II. merit an immunity and free commons till the time of their natural decease. At the end of eighteen days from trn^ laying of the second egg (but the time cannot be invariably fixed within several hours) a young one will appear. Subse- quently, at a short but uncertain interval, sometimes comes another chick, sometimes remains an addle egg. Of all young things, babies included, a new-hatched Pigeon ranks among the most helpless, as the annexed cut indicates with tolerable accuracy. Most little birds, Pigeon-Chick, a day old. if blind, if weak, can at least open their mouths to be fed; but these actually have their nutriment pumped into them. They have just instinctive sense enough to feel for the bills of their parents; they will make the same half-conscious movement to find the tip of your finger, if you take them in your hand. And this act of pumping from the stomachs of the parents is so efficiently performed, as to be, without offence, incre-
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