&0 THE PIGEON STANDARD. 
THE CAPUCHIN. 
Rather small in bodily proportions, erect and sprightly in 
carriage. Broad shell crest at the back of the head extend- 
ing from ear tu ear, but fitting very closely, compactly aud 
evenly to the skull. The head is round and full at the front; 
the beak short and of moderate substance, and black in col- 
or; the wattle is white and fine in texture; the eye cere is 
thin and dark in color; theiris of the eye is of the most 
silvery white. The whole of the body plumage is of the most 
lustrous dark shade, generally of ebony black, with the ex- 
ception of the tail and tail coverts, trum a line clean cut ut 
the base of the rump, which to the tip of the feathers should 
be of the purest white. Besides all whole colors there are 
also barred blues and silvers. 
THE MOOKEE. 
Is a pigeon of peculiar bodily action; the head and neck 
are in constant motion. With the exception of the crown of 
the head, extending from the juncture of the mandibles in a 
straight line with the eyes to the back of the cranium, which 
is white, and the two or three extreme flight feathers, which 
are also white, the whole body of the Mookee is generally of 
lustrous black or red ground color; the carriage is erect, the 
back of the head ornamented with a very close fitting pointed 
peak; the eyes are black, the upper mandible of the beak 
should be white, the lower one black. 
THE ANCIENT. 
In flight it has the action of the Tumbler; in motion it has 
a slight vibration of the neck, as the Fantail; in skull forma- 
tion it has the frontal of the Turbit; in beak it has an ap- 
proach to the substance of the Owl; in eye cere it has the’ 
red fleshy substance of the Barb; in iris it equals the bright- 
ness of the Cumulet; in foot feathering it vies with the 
choicest of Oriental Frills; in marking it is as evenly pied 
and cut as the Magpie; in bib or crescent it is as distinctly 
oval marked as the Pouter is crescent shaped; in depth and 
lustre of neck, chest, saddle, rump and tail color it approaches 
the Archangel; in body structure and uprightness of carriage 
it is as compact as the Homer; in hardness and closeness of 
feather second not even to the choicest Dragoon; in constitu- 
tion as hardy as a Rock; in disposition as merry as a Cropper. 
It is found in all colors. 
