91 PIGEONS OF COLOUR. 



Black, red, and yellow, with white wing bars. 

 Blue, with white wing bars, edged with black. 

 Silver, corresponding to the blue. 



Scaled-winged Swallows. On the ends of the coloured wing 

 coverts are small white points, resembling the scales of a 

 fish: 



Black, red, and yellow, with white scales or chequers on 



the coverts, in addition to white wing bars. 

 Blue, with white scales, and white wing bars, edged with 



black. 

 Blue, with white black-edged scales, and white wing bars, 



edged with black. 

 Silvers, corresponding to the blues. 



The Carmelite Pigeon. 



The Carmelite described by Boitard and Corbie, whose 

 description has been mostly copied by Brent in his book, 

 is evidently a variety of the Swallow pigeon. M. Corbie, 

 who had the breed under his care for nearly fifty years, 

 considers M. Fournier, who was keeper of the aviaries of the 

 Count de Clermont, mistaken in classing them as Swallows 

 in his account of pigeons supplied to the naturalist, M. 

 Buffon ; but the only difference between the Common Swallow 

 and Carmelite, as figured by Boitard and Corbie, is that the 

 latter is smaller, h^as a crest, and more feet feathering than 

 the former, which is smooth-headed. The markings are the 

 same. In all probability, the Carmelite of Boitard and Corbie 

 was the Niirnberg Swallow. Brent, whose illustrations are 

 mostly copies from Boitard and Corbie, has the Carmelite 

 similar in outline to them, but he has reversed the markings, 

 showing it to be a magpie-coloured pigeon. How he fell into 

 this error I cannot imagine, unless he understood the word 

 manteau to refer to the scapular and back feathers, 

 instead of to the wing coverts. In the descriptions of both 

 Swallow and Carmelite, Boitard. and Corbie apply the word 



