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siderably in breeding, there being no certainty in tlie production 

 of a wliite mark whicli lias no structural conformation in the bird 

 to guide it, sucli as a wliite bead, wings, or tail. Tlie rose pinion, 

 for the same reason, is a difficult mark to breed. Hence, 

 Pouters come, and must always come, more or less close or 

 open marked. The crop is sometimes seen solid, or free of 

 white, and sometimes the bib is wanting ; the bird is then 

 swallow - throated, and a white blaze on the forehead often 

 appears. The same may appear on a bird correctly marked 

 on the crop. No one would adduce a white blaze on the fore- 

 head of a short-faced mottled Tumbler from Baldhead blood. 

 The little Norwich Cropper, from careless breeding, is very 

 subject to the blaze face. I have seen Runts, imported from 

 abroad, some of which I had, marked exactly as the Pouter 

 ought to be marked, except that they had no white feathers 

 on the shoulders. They weighed over 31b. per pair. It is 

 something for one who admires his own breed so much as. 

 Herr Hevernick does, to allow that a pattern English Pouter 

 "must positively please " a fancier more than a pattern Pome- 

 ranian. It is unlikely that many English Pouters of the first 

 quality have been seen in Germany, because they easily sell 

 here for several times the price foreigners will give for them. 

 Were English fanciers to breed for solid shoulders they could 

 very easily accomplish their desire ; but they consider the rose 

 pinion such a set-off to a bird that they will not abandon it ; 

 and, although it is rare to see it well-defined, it is now and 

 then seen. 



Herr Heveniick says that it was Dr. Bodinus who named the 

 Pomeranian Cropper, that it was sometimes known before as. 

 the Hollander, and that he has seen some that were brought 

 from Holland very like it. These might have been taken from 

 England, or they might have been of a Dutch breed. He saw 

 some in the market of Rotterdam which were not English, but 

 which resembled the Pomeranian, though not so good. He 

 says the breed has lost quality in late years ; that it was better 



