| 单词 | tumbler pigeon |
| 例句 | There were the ducks and geese, and tumbler pigeons, fluttering down in great haste when Susan scattered corn. A Northern Countryside 2011-04-27T02:00:22.523Z The bird is so called from its way of occasionally rolling or turning over in its flight, somewhat after the fashion of a tumbler pigeon. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 I have seen a catbird on his way to a tree turn three somersaults, much like those performed by a tumbler pigeon, after which he alighted upon the bough. The Meaning of Evolution Only that some of the smaller boys put one more in mind of tumbler pigeons than of any other kind of birds. Harper's Young People, February 3, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly It has been asserted that of the best short-beaked tumbler pigeons a greater number perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Shrieked the bird, and it let itself fall over backwards, dropping down head over heels like a tumbler pigeon, or an unfortunate which had been shot, and disappearing among the leaves far below. The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens Then, past the stairway leading up to heaven, he hurries to a passage leading down to earth, toward which he whirls through space like a tumbler pigeon, landing at last upon the sun. The Book of the Epic BRENT, B.P., number of mammae in rabbits. -habits of the tumbler pigeon. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 In the long run selection gains the day, and we do not expect to fail so completely as to breed a bird as coarse as a common tumbler pigeon from a good short-faced strain. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition PERSIA, estimation of pigeons in. -carrier pigeon of. -tumbler pigeon of -cats of. -sheep of. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 |
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