| Show PIGEONS MILK mlle we have often heard beard these words used in derision but never sup supposed poised such an article existed till last evening we were reading some of the leaves of that wonder ul naturalist tur alist W J broderic Brode rip Tip he says As the breasts or udders adders of mami ferous females become gradually enlarged and thickened at the time of uterine gestation so during incubation are the coats bonts of the pigeons crop ani anil john 11 hunter unter on oil comparing the state of that organ when the bird was not sitting with its appearance pesa pela pe arance nae during incubation found the difference very remarkable in the first cases case it was very batby the time when the young youn were about to be hatched hat clied the whole except the portion which lay under tinder tha the trachea tro chea became thicker and assumed a glandular appearance having its internal surface very irregular it was likewise evidently more vascular than in its former stae state in order to the conveyance of 01 a quan guau city of blood sufficient for the nourishing substance sub whatever may be the consistence of this substance when just secreted it most probably very soon coagulates into a granulated white curd for in such form says hunter in continuation 1 I have always fou found rid it in the crop and if an old pigeon is killed just as the young ones are hatching the tile crop wilt will be found as above deirl described bed and in its cavity pieces of white curd mixed with the common food of the pigeon sue suek such sueh 1 as barley beam beans ac if we allow either of the parents to 0 o feed the brood the crop of the young pigeons when examined will be discovered to contain the same kind of curdled substance as elat viat of the old ones which passes from thence into the stomach sto sio mach where it is to be digested 11 the tile joke about pigeons milk is not so groundless after a all ail 1 but see how bow beautifully this dispensation ia i ordered according to tho ilic exigencies of the nestlin nestling cr I 1 1 the tha he young pageo pigeon n i is i s fed for a little time with this substance on only onis Y a as s about the third day 1 some of the common food is found mingled with it as ode the pigeon grows older the proportion of common food id is increased so that by the tiie time it 6 izi seven reven eight or illie nine dy old oil the he se secretion crellon of tl the curd ceases in in the old ones aad aid ald of cour course seba sepa juo jio more will ba be fecund hi in the young 1 it is a fecat aliat pilat that the 1 eon eoll has hao di at fist first a power to throw up his without any mixture of min oin common trion food a although though afterwards both adi avi ar thrown up according to the proportion inquired for the young onee I 1 have called the substance curd not as being literally so but as resembling that mere more lin anything I 1 know it mav may may li however oever bave bava a greater resemblance to curd ihan than we are perhaps aware of or for neither this secretion nor curd froin which the he AT whey hey has been pressed deeths to contain any sugar gugar and do not lun yun run luto lato the timm ascetics fermentation ferment the property of ia is confined to the substance itself as it produce producer a no uch such when mixed with milk thlik thi seere svere secretion tion in bt the pigeon like lilke all other animal substances lf hp comes putrid by standing 6 though not so as either blood or meat it C resisting putrefaction for a considerable time ri neither either wil will curd curo much pr pressed become put putrid rid so soon as either cither blood or meat I 1 those who to examine this phenomenon more closely will wiil find prep rations of the pigeons pi geona crop in that nobie noble mu which is john hunters best monument no young birds are in fo go forlorn a state as young pigeons t if the tile parents are an killed before I 1 the he young cau can provide for alet V selves birds of other species by tho ao cries of the starving oung young thich have been bien deprived of maternal aid can and do give assistance to the little ivr wretches etches but none except an old pi pigeon pleon eon with its crop arpp in a proper state slate call can save the lih ilk life of a nehill nestling ing dove tile the soldiers in ia the U S army receive doella dottla pay ay to thoc these of any other anny atin y iu in tie tae world |
