 | Leonard Jenyns - 1835 - 624 pages
...been "shot in the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house at WesthalU in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, Dec. 31, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire,...the breast. M. Gallopavo, Temm. Pig. et Gall. torn. np 374. and torn. in. p. 577. Turkey, Bete. Brit. Birds, vol. ip 325. DIMENS. Entire length three feet... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Eyton - 1836 - 200 pages
...British Animals," shot at Westhall, in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, on the 31st of December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird. The specimen in question -was presented to Dr. Fleming, by the Rev. A. Esplin, schoolmaster at Monymeal.... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1837 - 366 pages
...among British birds than of admitting the Migratory Pigeon. Yet its claims are certainly equal, for its feathers ' were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird,' and remain so to the present day." — p. 294. At page 331 it is observed that albino individuals of... | |
 | William MacGillivray - 1837 - 702 pages
...British birds, than of admitting the Migratory Pigeon. Yet its claims are certainly equal, for its feathers " were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird," and remain so to the present day. PRACTICAL ORNITHOLOGY. SECOND LESSON. WINTER EXCURSION DURING A SNOW-STORM... | |
 | William Jardine - 1842 - 452 pages
...the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house at Westhall, in the parish of Monymail, Fifeshire, 1st December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird."* A second specimen is said to have been killed in Roxburghshire, but we have not been able to trace... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - 498 pages
...the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house at Westhall, in the parish of Monymail, Fifeshire, 1st December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird." * A second specimen is said to have been killed in Roxburghshire, but we have not been able to trace... | |
 | sir William Jardine (bart.) - 1876 - 498 pages
...the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house at Westhall, in the parish of Monymail, Fifeshire, 1st December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird." * A second specimen is said to have been killed in Roxburghshire, but we have not been able to trace... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1884 - 728 pages
...Journal, iii. p. 362 (1827). at Westhall in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, the 31st of December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird." To this in the 2nd and 3rd Editions was added the record of another, which was sent to Mr. John Norman,... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1921 - 596 pages
...British Animals,' shot at Westhall, in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, on the 31st of December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird. The specimejn in question was presented to Dr. Fleming by the Rev. A. Esplin, schoolmaster at Monymeal."... | |
 | James McKeen Cattell - 1921 - 612 pages
...British Animals,' shot at Westhall, in the parish of Monymeal, Fifeshire, on the 31st of December, 1825. The feathers were quite fresh and entire, like those of a wild bird. The specimen in question was presented to Dr. Fleming by the Rev. A. Esplin, schoolmaster at Monymeal."... | |
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British list, consists in the capture of a specimen of the migratory pigeon of America, recorded by Professor Fleming to have been " shot while perched on a wall in the neighbourhood of a pigeon-house at Westhall, in the parish of Monymail, Fifeshire,... 