394 FANCY PIGEONS. 



With tlie above I also found a card, of whicli the following 

 is a copy: — 



Colomberian Society Meetings, 

 Queen's Head Tavern, 

 Holborn, 

 rhe first Wednesday in the following months: 

 February — Shew Day 

 April 

 June 

 August 

 October 

 Decenaber 



J. BEAD SHAW, 



President, 



The sketch heading the circular was probably etched by 

 Jas. Ward, R.A., himself; it bears his initials. There is a 

 portrait of an Almond Tumbler by him in the Sporting 

 Magazine of the year 1808; and there is another, which I 

 have, in the Sporting Magazine for March, 1825, from a 

 painting by him, the description of which is as follows : 



This bird was sister to a famous pigeon called Columhitne, and 

 was bred (we believe) from birds of Mr. Parry's, by French Stevens, 

 about the year 1803, who sold her to Richard Latham, Esq., in whose 

 possession she remained some time, during which Edward Whitehead 

 offered him thirty guineas for her. She was one of the most perfect 

 birds of her day, and her family having been successfully continued, 

 has contributed most essentially to the perfection of the present breed ; 

 and, notwithstanding the pains that have been taken in the rearing of 

 this breed of pigeons by several amateurs, the feathers of the specimen 

 we lay before our readers have not been surpassed in the present race 

 of Almond Tumblers. We believe she was afterwards in the possession 

 of Sir John Sebright, or Lord Heathfield. The portrait was painted for 

 R. Latham, Esq., by his valued friend, James Ward, E.A. 



In the Gentleman^s Magazine for 1792, page 1152, there is a 

 notice of the marriage of Mr. W. P. Windus. 



There is no edition of the "Treatise on the Almond Tum- 

 bler" dated 1804, as stated by Eaton. The edition by Hogg, 



