But Mr Dodd did not reply, he only limped about the room with anguish depicted upon every feature, while Mr Pouter tremblingly went on with his work.
Pouter again, chipping and hammering, and sending the dust a-flying all over the room worse than ever.
With the English Carrier and Pouter pigeons, the full development of the wattle and the crop occurs rather late in life, and conformably with the rule, these characters are transmitted in full perfection to the males alone.
Pouter pigeon, late development of the large crop in.
The properties for which a pouter is valued are usually stated as being five in number; viz.
The Pouter inflates both its true crop and oesophagus; the Turbit inflates in a much less degree the oesophagus alone.
There are many sub-varieties of the Pouter of different colours, but these I pass over.
They believe that it would be easier to raise a pouter or fantail pigeon from crossing two distinct species, neither of which possessed the characters of these races, than from any single species.
In the case of the pouter we may suppose that some bird inflated its crop a little more than other pigeons, as is now the case in a slight degree with the oesophagus of the turbit.
In the time of Aldrovandi, no doubt the more the pouter inflated his crop, the more he was valued.
In the bones of the extremities I could detect no difference, except in their proportional lengths; for instance, the metatarsus in a pouter was 1.
How could crossing produce, for instance, a pouter or a fantail, unless the two supposed aboriginal parents possessed the remarkable characters of these breeds?
The pouter has a much elongated body, wings, and legs; and its enormously developed crop, which it glories in inflating, may well excite astonishment and even laughter.
You villain, you, why you have kill'd My pouter rare.
Did he ordain that the crop and tail-feathers of the pigeon should vary, in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds?
In the Pouter Pigeons this power has been developed and its exercise encouraged to such an extent that in many specimens the inflated crop is as large as all the rest of the bird.
The common Pouter is a large pigeon with long legs.
Similarly with the Pouter Pigeon, the globular crop, which is its distinctive character, must be large and well formed, and in addition the general carriage must be such as to show the pouting trait to the best advantage.
Did He ordain that the crop and tail-feathers of the pigeon should vary in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds?
In making reciprocal crosses between pouter and fantail pigeons, the pouter-race seemed to be prepotent through both sexes over the fantail.
They are even shaped differently, having waists like wasps and bosoms which would resemble those of pouter pigeons if pouter pigeons' bosoms did not seem to be a part of them.
There is far greater difference between a pouter and a carrier pigeon, than between a Caucasian and a Mongolian.
Imagine a Pouter in a state of nature wading into the water and then, being buoyed up by its inflated crop, sailing about in search of food.
In your hands it will thrive and have a fair chance of being developed without delay into some type of the Columbidae--say a Pouter or a Tumbler.
Do you consider that the successive variations in the size of the crop of the Pouter Pigeon, which man has accumulated to please his caprice, have been due to "the creative and sustaining powers of Brahma?
It is called the Pouter because it is in the habit of causing its gullet to swell up by inflating it with air.
I should tell you that all pigeons have a tendency to do this at times, but in the Pouter it is carried to an enormous extent.
Many birds have the oesophagus or the skin of the neck more or less dilatable, but in no known bird is it so dilatable as in the pouter pigeon.
Did He ordain that the crop and tail-feathers of the pigeon should vary, in order that the fancier might make his grotesque pouter and fantail breeds?
With the English Carrier and Pouter pigeon the full development of the wattle and the crop occurs rather late in life, and these characters, conformably with our rule, are transmitted in full perfection to the males alone.
On the walls hung a picture of Queen Victoria, looking like a pouter pigeon in her jubilee robes, and another of the sardonic Disraeli.
First came Sir Joseph Hingston, erect and podgy, with his smooth grey waistcoat in front of him like the breast of a pouter pigeon.
The fantail andpouter pigeons are two very distinct and unlike breeds, which we yet know to have been both derived from the common wild rock-pigeon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pouter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
