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drawn up by the National Peristeronic Society of London ; 

 others ah-eady issued include the Carrier, Dragoon, and Eastern 

 Frilled varieties. When completed, these standards might be 

 issued in book form by the Society, but they are not 

 printed uniformly. 



"How TO Breed, Rear, and Train the Macclesfield 

 Tippler and the High-flying Tumbler Pigeon. By 

 G. Smith, Nottingham. 1883." 58 pages; 4Jin. by 2fin. 

 This little book contains practical infonnation on the sub- 

 ject of High-flying Tumblers, how to train and feed them 

 so that they may fly, as they do, for as long as ten to 

 twelve hours at a stretch. There seem.s to be nothing new, for I 

 have a copy of a Persian manuscript that was found in Delhi 

 which gives various recipes, such as the following : " To make 

 pigeons soar high and fast, and good tumblers during flight ; " 

 " A drink to make pigeons soar high ; " " For curing asthma 

 in pigeons," a recipe by Meer Bukar Ali, who was also author 

 of recipes for making Bulbuls and Quails fight well. Had 

 our old friend, " egregious Moore," " author of the celebrated 

 worm-powder," been born a subject of the Great Mogul, he 

 would have been an adept at this kind of thing. 



" Pigeons ; an Essay delivered before the Tunbridge Wells 

 Ornithological Society by O. E. Cresswell, Esq., on October 3rd, 

 1883. Tunbridge Wells." Small 8vo, 16 pages. 



" Pigeons for Exhibition and Profit. London : J. & 

 R. Maxwell." 8vo, 32 pages. Woodcuts; coloured wrapper. 

 Published 1884. 



" The Management of Pigeons." Small pamphlet, 16 

 pages; coloured wi-apper. Printed by Alex. Boyle, London, 

 1881. 



"Our Fancy Pigeons, and Rambling Notes op a 

 Naturalist. By George Ure, Dundee. 1886." The author 

 repeats, with variations, the accounts of the Pouter and Fantail 

 he wrote for Fulton's "Pigeon Book," and gives a description 

 of his early experience and fancier friends. 



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