Identifier: centuryillustratv32newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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naturally monogamous andmates for life, but, under the artificial con-ditions of confinement in the loft, the loveof the male for home duties and care of theyoung will often lead him to maintain two es- tablishments, when his efforts to do doubleduty during the time of incubation and feed-ing will be unremitting and amusing. Two eggs make up the setting. One is laidat about two oclock in the afternoon, theother about forty-five hours later. The timeof incubation is seventeen days. The sex ofthe hatch is generally male and female; thus,a doos cleckin is the Scotch term for afamily of two children of opposite sex. Butthis depends greatly upon the relative ageand condition of the parent birds. Duringincubation the hen sits from four oclockin the afternoon until ten the next morning,when she is relieved by the male. The foodof the newly hatched bird is a thin curdysecretion of the glands of the crop known aspigeons milk, and exists alike in both parents. TOO THE BREEDING OF FANCY PIGEONS.
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BLUE PRIEST. (OWNED BY E. H. MOORE, MELROSE, MASS.) Its presence is only influenced by incubation;thus, a barren hen can be induced to situpon eggs, and when the young appear shewith her mate will be prepared to feed them.In feeding, the beak of the young is insertedin that of the parent, and the food is dis-gorged from the crop into it by a peculiarconvulsive movement of the body of theparent. While the secretion is unmixed withgrain, the beak of the young is soft, and thebird is known as a peeper; but as the grainis added the beak hardens and the voicechanges, and it is a squeaker. When readyto leave the nest and face the world for it-self, it is a squealer, or, in market parlance, asquab. When six weeks old it is able to takecare of itself, and its parents probably have asecond pair of eggs to claim their attention. The old classification of fancy pigeons wasthe high-class, the fancy breeds, and the toys;but with the increase of standard require-ments in certain of the middle class

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