Identifier: birdsofbible00stra (find matches)
Title: Birds of the Bible
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Cincinnati, Jennings and Graham New York, Eaton and Mains
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hich formed theinner support of these low structures made of big bricksof clav shall stand out a skeleton above crumbling Avails,and jackals, wolves, !)ear, and h^enas shall proAvl there.Pelicans perching on the tottering woodwork shall grunttheir hoarse cry, bittern shall boom in the night time, anddesolation to chill the heart shall reign. This quotationis from the new version, and it substitutes porcupinefor bittern, which is a large mistake. The voices of theporcupine do not sing in the windows, while bittern areamong the loudest-voiced creatures of night, as I haveexplained elsewhere. In drawing a like pictiue under similar circumstances,Isaiah made the same comparison, The pelican and theporcupine shall possess it. This completes the Biblicalreference to these birds, and their history makes theiruse in such connections evident. THE PIGEON And If the ohlation to the Lord he a hurnt offering of fo-u-ls, then shall he offer his ohlation of turtle doees or f/onnii pigeona—^NIoses.
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Chapter XVIIITHE PIGEON The distinction between pigeons jind doves of Biblelands was not drawn strongly by tlic ))eople. Pigeonswere either senii-doinosticatid or flocked in clouds in wildestate over ravines and wilderness thickets. Doves werewild, being kept in cages as pets only in especial instances.Also they were migratory. They came in the spring withthe crane and the swallow, and went in the fall. But theywere much tamer tlian wild ))igeons, living in ))airs, andcoming into palm groves, the fruit trees of gardens, andbuilding on houses even, if they could And l)asc for a nest.The wild pigeons were nnicli shyer, and kept faitherfrom till haunts of man. and made longer flights in foodhunting. They were warier than the doves and were notso easily taken in nets and traps. Doves remained closerto their nests and were great food Inuiters of earth; sothey were captured easily. I can find no record of which country first domesticatedthe wild pigeon, but I believe it to have been these r

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