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original of the carrier, it is a much smaller 

 bird and has a short neck, broad breast, and 

 broad flat head; wattles on beak and about the 

 eye not so prominent, and more highly colored 

 than the carrier; beak shorter. Both these 

 breeds are of ancient lineage. The barb was 

 perfected in Barbary. The eye wattles ma- 

 ture in the third year, and should be of equal 

 breadth, the thickest at the outer edge, the eye 

 standing out in the center like the hub of a 

 wheel. His colors are red, silver, dun, white, 

 and black. 



THE JACOBIN 



The jacobin is of continental origin, and has 

 its name from the fancied resemblance, in the 

 hooded white head, to the cowl and shaven 

 head of the friar. The bird is small in body, 

 the loose, silky feathering giving it a size to 

 which its weight does not correspond. The 

 legs and feet are clean. The difficult points in 

 breeding are the adornings of the head, the 

 lower part of which closely resemble a muffler; 

 these feathers grow in two directions. The 

 colors are red, silver, black, white, and blue. 



THE TRUMPETER 



The trumpeter is divided into the toy and 



