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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GAtJDENER. 



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Game Bakta**.— Blael or Brown Re>u.—\ and 2. J. Croslandjjnn. h 

 Adams : G. A C. FurnesH; E Payne. Any other Variety.— 1, W. Adams. 

 Croslind.jun. 



Bavtams (Any oilier variety,.— I, G. A. Perrin. 2, G. A. Stephe 



..'. 



C A. E. 



Usaho 

 DnoKS— Bnu«I.— 1, W. '1 M Uligan. 2 and he 



1, Mrs. Hnrrell. 2 an,l <-.Mrs. Warburton. he. Ho 

 S. Mmvhniv. 



Gef.sk.— 1, R. p. Williams. 2. Mrs. Warburton. 3. R. W. Boyle, he, Mrs. 

 Warl.urton : R. W. Boyle; B .n. .1. Massy : E. Carter. 



Ornamental Watbb mwi . — 1. R. W. Boila 2. B. P. Williams, he, C. !•. 

 Baker; R. P. Williams: R. W. Bovle: E. Carter; R Williams. 



Tcrkfvs— l, 2. and Boolt. .1. c. Cooper, lie, S. JP'Vee : A. E. ITSBB a : S. 

 Mowbray : Miss L. Kiiij r , Hon I. Massv. , _ 



Selling Cl>ss. -I. C. W. Brierlev. 2. J. C. Cooper. 3. E. W. Boyle, he, S. 

 Mowbray, e, Mrs. rVarbcxtoa ; F. H. Green; Hon. Mrs. Green. 



SINGLE COCKS. . _ 



Dorkings — 1, Mrs. W.i- Hirton. 2, S. Mowbray, he, G. A. Stephens ; J. E. 

 Milner. 



Spanish.—]. C. W. Br-»r'e< . 2. W. G. Mulliean. I e. Hon. Miss D. Pennant. 



Game— 1, C. W. Brierle' . ' 2, G. & C. Fulness, he. .1. Fletcher ; G. Clement. 



COCBINV— I, Mre. Barrell. 2. F. H. Green, c, .1. K. MUner. 



Bbahmas.— Darl. -I. Mrs. Warburton. 2. G. A. Stephens, he, Hon. MiS3 D. 

 Pennant: R. W. Bovl". t : \— 2. Miss J. Simmonds. 



La Fleche.— 1, J. c. Cweper. e, G. A. Stephens. 



HorriAxs.— 1, J. C. Cooper. 



CBSTR-CfEORB.— 1, F. V, . Zurhorst. he, P. J. Waldron ; .1. C. Cooper. 



Hambceghs.— r.,. .... ■ ; _ .. ,■ p. M'Clintoek. /<<•. H. Pickles, jun. : H. 

 Beldon. Spangled -1, H. Pi, kles. jun. ; H. Beldon. _ 



Game Bantams— i, c. '. C. Fnrnesa. 2. W. Adams, he, E. Payne; W. 

 1 ieav,s. . . ' i , ',','. F. Kntuiale. 



PIGEONS. „ _ „ 



Pouters— Corf :—l and 2. R. Fulton, he, -I. K. Milner ; J. H. Perrott : P. H. 

 Jones, c, J. H. Perrott. H-—..-1 and 2, R. Fulton, lie, J. H. Perrott: 3. 

 Fulton. .-. J. H. Peer,.:' : P. H. J ines. 



Carriers.— Carl-..— 1. .1. H. Perrott. 2 and iic, R. Fulton, e, P. H. Jones : C. 

 F.Staunton. Sena— 1 and c R. Fnlton. rhc. J. H. Perrott. e, P. H.Jones. 



Tumblers (Short fae-1! - 1 and -.'■■■. l;. Fulton. 2, P. H.Jones. (ic.R-Fulton; 

 P. H. Jones. 



Jacobins.— ], R. Fulton. 2. P. H. Jonea. rhe. T. O'Grady. he, Mastsrs 

 Blennerh»„set. e. .1. H p.»rr.>t : Masters.Plennerhassett. 



Fastails— I. Ma«fra Blennerhassett. 2, F. Graham, he, Masters Blenner- 

 hassett: R. Fulton ; P. H. .'ones : T.Martin, e, H. Vnrdlev; .1. M'Oonnel'. 



Trumpeter?.— 1, R. Fulton. 2. .1. H. Perrott. he. Masters Blennerhassett. 



.J. H. Perrott; F. Staunt in. 

 Owls— 1, R. Fulton. 2, P. H. 3 

 Blennerhassett; J. H Perrott. 



-1 L J. H. Perrott. 2. R. Fult, 



. he, H. Yardley ; P. H. Jones, c, Masters 

 he, J. H. Perrott ; R. Fulton: P. H. 



Bevrds.— 1, P. H. Jones. 2, Masters Blennerhassett. he, F. 



Carbarn: J. H. Perrott. 



Magpies.— 1. Has era L, . 

 haseett; c. F. Staunton; P. H. Jon 



Any other Variety.— 1 and 3. p 

 Wall,,,.,.. <-, Masters Blennerhassett 

 P. H. Jones ; F. Graham ; E. IT'Crea. 



CAGE BIRDS. 



Canaries— Helot '"i Cod'.— 1. D Scully. 2. P. Kearns. Yellow, Orange, 



rhassett. 2. P. H. Jones, he, Masters Blennti 



J. McDonnell. 



li. Jonea. 2. C. F. Staunton, he. C 



0. V. Staunton ; J. Lloyd ; H. Yardley 



.. BnJ, 



, liter ntrirfy.—l, a. V'ltiiams. '2. G. A. Perrin. Gi-en. Lizard, <r 



' oneo, //-■,/.— l, J. Heaoe . 2 '.. W:Iliu:ns. It.'. P. Kearns. Crrr.ted— 1, Mrs. 



" ", G. Williams. 



Parrots (Green or Gror;.- '., Mrs. Cassin. 2. P. Kearns, 

 Macaw or Cockatoo — 1. G. Williams. 2. E. Carter. 

 Parakeet on Lonmi, -., E. Carter. 2, Miss Kelly, he, G. William 

 Ornamental Foue o Cae Ripds.— ], H. Blakney. 2, P. Kearns. 

 Common to Ireland.—!, P. Kearns. 

 Judges — Edward Hewitt, 

 Teebay, Esq., Fulwood, Prestoi 



Esq., Sparkhrook, Birmingham : P.. 

 ; and W. B. Tegetmeier, Esq., Loudon. 



BIRMINGHAM ROLLERS AND SKY TUMBLERS. 



I am obliged to "Reader," "An Eye Witness," and the 

 other gentlemen, for their kindly notice of my letter. To the 

 first I wish to pay that my reasons for pointing to Manchester, 

 Macclesfield, and Chester as likely places to find good Sky 

 Tumblers, were because my own birds originally came from 

 Manchester. I have known birds quite equal to them which 

 were said to be from Macclesfield, and I have heard good 

 accounts of birds in or about Chester. 



I confess to the whimsicality of my vom de plume. It arose 

 less from the desire to appear eccentric than from the humour 

 of the moment, coupled with the fact that whilst entertaining 

 no musical animosity towards Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beet- 

 hoven, and some others, I yet am vulgar enough to admire 

 music "with a tune to it." and I think some of those touching 

 melodies with which " Old Bob Ridley " has the honour of 

 beinr; classed (though I should scarcely call "Old Bob" soul- 

 stirring), are full of sentiments which all of us would do well 

 to cherish. 



I still think that Manchester could supply good Sky Tumblers. 

 If not, "a chaDge has ccme o'er the spirit of its dream " more 

 suddenly than might have been expected. It wa3 long famed 

 as the mart to which our dealers went for Tumblers, and even 

 so late as last summer, happening to be in Manchester during 

 the Agricultural Exhibition, and not being able to resist the 

 opportunity of looking in on as many dealers as I could readily 

 make out, being comparatively a stranger, I saw a pair or two 

 of rather likely-looking birds; and from what I saw and heard, 

 I have no doubt if I had had time I could have found birds 

 which would have been worth buying "to cross," or to serve 

 some other desirable end, which the heart of a man really in 



love with Pigeons never fails to suggest as a makepeace for 

 laying out his money. 



Without dropping anything of the respectful demeanour with 

 which I am accredited, I must ask to be permitted, as well 

 to pleasure my own mind as to preserve " Header " from dis- 

 appointment, to adhere to the incognito under which I first 

 wrote, illustrating, as does the Sky Tumbler, that beautiful 

 line of Campbell's — 



"Distance lends enchantment to the view." 

 — Old Bob Eidley. 



Can any naturalist or ornithologist give us the pedigree of 

 these Pigeons ? I have a flight of birds bred from Birmingham 

 Rollers, that on any mild day will obey a wave of the hand, 

 mount cloud height — high as ever the Curlew, Snipe, or Sky- 

 lark goes, and fly for an hour and more, almost invisible, and 

 circle and tumble gracefully and nimbly in their descent. The 

 colours are blue-chequered, black, and black and red, mottled or 

 pied ; the eyes pearl, save one bird with odd eyes, a dark and a 

 pearl eye ; " and the legs, some clear coral, others downy or 

 muffed. 



The birds of Mr. Crook, at Swansea, of which " Eye Witness" 

 told us, are almost similar to my own birds (Rollers), the odd eye 

 only being more frequent in them: a freckled head, or bearded 

 beak being common (called by " Old Bob Ridley," broken 

 baldpate) to Mr. Crook's and my own birds. I write from Mr. 

 Crook's description of his birds, in answer to my inquiries. I do 

 not know, however, if Mr. Crook's birds tumble, singly, doubly, 

 or in triplets, or at all, as Rollers do, in their descent. 



In what points, therefore, do the Birmingham Rollers and Sky 

 Tumblers differ, if Mr. Crook's birds are of the latter variety, 

 and they are by instinct, if not by purity of breed ; for only a 

 week or ten days ago Mr. Crook's birds flew five hours and 

 three-quarters, and another day he lost fifteen birds, turned out 

 at 2 p.m., which flew until night clouds formed, and obscured 

 their descent, so that these birds wandered into space, and were 

 lost. I cannot fathom the odd eye, and freckled head, or bearded 

 beak, unless of Baldpate origin, as some Baldpates have hazel 

 eyes. 



Has the Roller no advocate in Birmingham, and the Sky 

 Tumbler no supporter in the circle of Pigeon-fanciers ? — Reader. 



TRUMPETER PIGEONS. 



There has been a great deal of your valuable space occupied 

 of late with the abuse and defence of hardworking and well- 

 meaning committeemen ; and now that the subject appears to 

 be fully ventilated, it would be well if some of the able accusers 

 and defenders would turn to a subject more interesting to the 

 majority of your readers— say, for instance, if they would give 

 us some information about their experiences in breeding the 

 varieties of poultry or Pigeons which are their particular fancy. 

 I am sure that a series of papers on this subject, such as I have 

 read from time to time in " our Journal," would be very 

 acceptable to poultry and Pigeon fanciers in general. 



My particular fancy is Trumpeters, and I should like to have 

 the opinion of other breeders on certain points which have 

 been disputed. The points of a Trumpeter are rose, hood, 

 limb, colour, and size. Of oourse, in self-coloured birds those 

 which have these points in the greatest perfection obtain the 

 first place ; but in judging Mottles the question arises. Is the 

 palm to be carried off by badly-coloured birds— say with white 

 flights or head, with excellent rose, hood, and feet, or by per- 

 fectly mottled ones with rose, hood, or feet a little imperfect ? 

 I would say that in a class for Mottled Trumpeters the first 

 point to be looked for is proper marking, and then the prize 

 should be awarded to this pair, though slightly inferior in hood, 

 &B-, to white tailed or limbed birds in the same class. 



If Mottled Trumpeters are to be judged almost irrespective 

 of colour, as I was sorry to see them at a large show recently, 

 it must tend to lower the standard of excellence in the breed 

 very considerably. Was a Black Pouter with a white tail or 

 black limbs ever placed before birds of inferior carriage and 

 size, but of orthodox marking » Certainly never, for then we 

 might bid farewell to the exquisitely coloured birds which we 

 now see at most of our Bhows. The most perfect-rosed and 

 hooded Trumpeter in my possession has a pure white head and 

 white flights, and though a splendid stock bird, yet no one in 

 his senses would think of putting him in competition with a 

 Mottled Trumpeter class. The value of a Mottled Trumpeter 

 ought to consist in the difficulty which a breeder has to contend 



