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under the wings, and as far as the points of the flight 

 feathers, which is only very rarely found in other species. 

 Sometimes this somewhat tender pigeon produces white-spotted 

 young ones, which in moulting become quite white, but again 

 breed correctly coloured and marked ones. The Moulter 

 Pigeons prefer to remain by themselves, and rarely fly farther 

 than the neighbouring roofs." I believe that the gorgeously 

 coloured Bed Priests shown of late in this country were of 

 this variety, though they had coloured tails. They carried a 

 metallic lustre to the very extremity of the tail a rare thing 

 in pigeons of a red colour. 



Herr Priitz, in his new Book of Pigeons, represents the 

 Whitehead in various forms viz., red, with white head and 

 tail, and shell crest; black, with shell crest, white head, tail, 

 and wing bars ; blue, with white head and tail, and with 

 frontal tuft over the beak wattle, but no crest at the nape. 



The Monk Pigeon. 



The Monk Pigeon (Die Monchtaube of Germany) is admitted 

 to be a relative of the Priest, compared with which, how- 

 ever, it is larger and broader across the chest and back. It 

 is found in all the chief colours, marked as follows : Both 

 mandibles are white, the whole head is white, the line of 

 demarcation running below the eyes, which should be hazel 

 in colour. The flight feathers and the tail, with its coverts, 

 are white, and the leg and feet feathers, from the knee down- 

 wards. The thighs and belly should be dark, but are often 

 partly white, which is a fault in this breed. All colours are 

 said to be found, both with and without white wing bars. 



Herr Priitz represents the Monk as both plain-headed and 

 shell-crested, marked as above. I saw a pair lately of a very 

 beautiful blue chequer. These were uncrested. 



The Swallow Pigeon. 



The Swallow Pigeon, known in Germany in several varieties 



