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ORIGIN. 



has been brought from China with an extraordinary develop- 

 ment of gullet. I have named it the Chinese Dewlap pigeon. 

 A recent Russian traveller writes of a mandarin in the in- 

 terior of China, who kept his fancy pigeons with great 

 care; it is possible we may still get from that country, or 

 from the interior of Northern Africa, some variety hitherto 

 unknown here. 



