Calculations — New Guinea— Fantails, 20 1 



geons used and sold from a Berkshire dove- 

 cote, in 1807, is extracted from the Survey : 

 — 147 used in the house, at 5^. per dozen, 

 SI. \s. 3c/.— Sold 550 for 10/. 156'. lO^d 

 =13/. 17^. \\d. The dung estimated at 

 one fourth of their return per annum. 



New Guinea pigeons are said, in some 

 Lady's Voyage to India, nearly to equal 

 the turkey in size ; of a slate colour, with 

 a crest of gauze feathers, some inches hi g!i, 

 in the form of a fan ; the iris of the eye, 

 bright Vermillion. 



By my memoranda, in 1801, I observe, 

 that sixty-five pairs of old pigeons, and one 

 hundred and forty squeakers of all sizes, re- 

 gularly fed, consumed in one week, five 

 pecks of the smallest beans, and ten quarts 

 of seeds. The above old stock, without any 

 young, consumed about half the quantity. 



From the same. — Fan-tails or Sha- 

 kers, the head always in motion, are beau- 

 tiful stock and good breeders, but so stupid 

 and silly, as scarcely to be capable of ta- 

 king care of themselves, or finding their 

 home. Runts, although so much larger, 



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