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ones also exists. These birds are found of very good and glossy- 

 colours, in black, red, and yellow. The beard in this variety 

 ought not to extend to the eyes, but should appear as a 

 round white spot under the lower mandible, which ought also 

 to be white in all colours. The flight feathers are white, 

 the rest of the plumage being coloured. 



The White-harred Prague Tumbler is short and thick in beak, 

 with a high forehead, pearl eyes, and smooth legs. In colour 

 these pigeons resemble Brlinner Pigmy Pouters, being either 

 light blue or light fawn, with white wing bars. 



The Hungarian Magpie Tumbler resembles, in marking, our 

 common Magpie Pigeon, except that the head is white above 

 a line running through the eyes. It is sheU-crested. 



The Brander is a Copenhagen Tumbler, of a black ground 

 colour, but strongly glossed with reddish bronze. A good bird 

 should appear all over of the same colour as that on the breast 

 of the bronzed Archangel Pigeon, except that the points of the 

 primary and secondary flights, as well as a bar across the end 

 of the tail, should be black. The Brander is smooth-headed 

 and legged, and is, doubtless, the breed referred to by Neu- 

 meister as the Fire Pigeon. The hen of a pair in my possession 

 answers the above description; the cock is darker, showing 

 less bronze over the black ground colour. 



The Shahing Tumbler. — All the specimens of this breed I 

 have seen came from Germany, and were yellow whole-feathers, 

 with grouse-muffed legs. They resembled oui- common Tumblers 

 in general appearance, but had a trembling neck, similar, 

 though less in degree, to what the Indian Mookee displays. 

 I was infoiTiied that they exist in various colours, both self- 

 coloured and Magpie marked, and that the Magpies ought to 

 have a small white crescent on the breast. 



The German Ancient. — The^^/^s/rt^/MJier, or Ancient, bears some- 

 what the same relation to the Shaking Tumbler as om- Short- 

 faced do to our Common Tumblers. Its appearance betokens 

 Barb descent, it having a rather pronounced red eye wattle, a 



