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leaves (i.-viij.), and pages 9-104. No. 3 has an extra leaf 

 following the title-page, containing advertisements of Hogg's 

 " Complete Bird and Pigeon Fanciers " on one side, and 

 " Contents of this Work " on the other. The author was 

 W. P. Windus, a solicitor in London, who says in the book 

 he had been a fancier of Almond Tumblers for ten or twelve 

 years. He continued in the fancy for some time, for I have 

 a circular letter signed by him in 1813, which I found in a 

 copy of his book which belonged to " Thomas Garle, jun., 

 1809," who, with his father, was long connected with the 

 Columbarian Society. The circular is partly engraved, the 

 portion I print in italics being in the autograph of Mi*. 

 Windus. It is headed by an engraving of an Almond 

 Tumbler, of which I give a copy (Fig. 17). 



Fig. 17. 

 Sir, — You are requested to Dine with the Colombarians, on Tuesday 

 next, the Ith of Deer., at four o'clock precisely, to declare Birds, to 

 choose Committee, President, and Deputy, and to audit accounts. 



Yours, &c., W. P. WINDUS, Secy. 



2d Deer., 1813. 



