151 PIGEONS OF PECULIAR VOICE. 



peter's rose, not only tliat it may see better, bat because 

 it gets clogged with food when feeding its young ones. 



Sub-Varieties of Trumpeter Pigeon. 



In Germany there is a sub-variety of the Trumpeter, 

 marked like the Shield Pigeon, or exactly as a Turbit ought 

 to be marked — all white, with coloured shoulders. Neumeister 

 figures them on plate 10 of his book, under the name of 

 Bastard Tronimeltauhen. They are represented, on the same 

 plate, with well-feathered feet, but with smaller rose and 

 crest than the pure Trumpeters. The Black and Blue have 

 white wing bars, the Red and Yellow are solid shouldered. 

 In Tegetmeier's book there is a picture of a pair of these 

 pigeons with red shoulders and white wing bars, called Letz 

 Pigeons, under which name the author says they had been 

 exhibited at English shows. There was probably some mis- 

 take in the naming of them — perhaps the Latz was meant — 

 at least, I cannot find the name in any German book. Brent 

 says, in the Poultry Chronicle, that "lats-chige" — rough 

 slippered — is a German provincial name for the Trumpeter. 



Neumeister also figures another sub-variety, the reverse in 

 marking of the preceding, viz., all red and yellow with white 

 shoulders. These probably come out of the nest self-coloured, 

 and moult white-sided, like Tumblers and Runts. Boitard and 

 Corbie describe some varieties of the Trumpeter which M. 

 Corbie brought from Germany, the breed having become 

 scarce in France at the time they wrote. These are the above 

 Red and Yellow White-sides, Whole Blacks with White Wing 

 Bars, Grey-headed Blacks, Blues with white heads, flights, 

 and tails, and similar Blues, with the addition of yellowish 

 wing bars. Some of these were probably Priest Pigeons. 



The Altenburg Trumpeter Pigeon. 



This variety of the Trumpeter, deriving its name from the 

 district of Altenburg, is distinguished by its melodious vocal 



