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out another book dealing A\ith pigeons, entitled Homing 

 Pigeons, Mhich is still held in great esteem ; there are 

 also two other well thought-out works — namely, Breeding 

 for Colour, and Physiology of Breeding, long since out of 

 print and now very scarce and valuable. 



In 1873, Tegetmeier published his book on Povltry, 

 which A\as again illustrated by the same artist-fancier 

 as was his " Pigeon " book ; a work widely read. In 

 connexion with the breeding of poultry he was always 

 strongly advocating the necessity of combining 

 " exhibition " and " utility " properties in each individual 

 bird, for he was no believer in " fancy " points alone, and 

 this led up to Poultry for the Table and Market, published 

 in 1893, a book which did infinite good. In co-operation 

 with Sir Walter Gilbey, he was instrumental in forming 

 the " Table Poultry " section at the Dairy Show, London, 

 and it must always be remembered that it is to Teget- 

 meier and his great friends — F. Esquilant, Parkin, 

 H. Jones and Charles Howard, so v.ell known in the past 

 in the pigeon-w'orld — that we owe the institution of what 

 has now, for a generation past, become acknoA\ledged 

 as the greatest exhibition of poultry and pigeons in the 

 world, namely the " Grand International Show " held at 

 the Crystal Palace. 



Perhaps the best known of all Tegetmeier's works is that 

 entitled Pheasants : their Natural History and Practical 

 Management, a book widely read and much appreciated 

 and to which must be attributed the present-day industry 

 — I can call it by no other name — of rearing game-birds 

 for shooting purposes. 



When the Willughby Society was formed by some 

 members of the British Ornithologists' Union, he under- 

 took the duties of general editor ; he also edited the 

 fourth edition of Morris's Nests and Eggs of British Birds 

 and a new (fifth) edition of Beverley Morris's Game Birds 

 and Wildloui. On the invasion of these Islands by 

 Pallas's Sand-Grouse, in 1888, he published a pamphlet 

 giving some account of this bird and of its " history, 



