PIGEONS AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



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THESCANDAROON. 



I BELIEVE I said somewhere in this work that to me all 

 pigeons were beautiful, but I fear I will have to draw 

 the line on the Scandaroon. 



This bird is like no other. It has somewhat the body shape 

 of the Homer, though more lengthy in build. Legs clean, 

 and rather short; wings well folded and lapping over tail. 

 The head is large in proportion to body. Small eye and beak 

 wattles, the latter extending well down on the beak, which 

 is curved down. It can hardly be called a "sickle-bill" yet 



SCANDAROON. 

 there is a curve from the face to the tip of the beak. 



There are not many of them in this country, and the few 

 fanciers who keep them, and to whom I have spoken, have 

 admitted that they saw no beauty in them, but kept them 

 because they were odd and quaint looking. 



In Germany the Scandaroons have a strong place in favor, 

 and at Nuremberg especially, they can be found in profusion. 

 I do not think the bird will ever be popular in America, for 

 the reason that it has no particular beauty, or good points to 

 commend it. 



