92 FANCY PIGEONS. 



manteau to the wing coverts, as reference to their letterpress 

 and illustrations will show. 



The Stork Pigeon. 



Die Storch oder Schwingentaube (Stork, or Wing Pigeon of 

 Germany) is in size and shape similar to the Spot Pigeon, 

 with which it has in common the coloured spot on the 

 brow black, red, yellow, or blue. If the spot is small, the 

 upper mandible may be white; but it is usually coloured 

 if the spot is extensive. The head may be either smooth, 

 peaked, or shell-crested. The eye is hazel-coloured. The 

 legs and feet are preferred heavily hocked and feathered, 

 and are coloured from the knee down, the thigh feathers 

 themselves being white. The ten flight feathers in each 

 wing should be coloured, and all the rest of the bird must 

 be white, except the feathers of the spurious wing, and a 

 few feathers about the wing butts. These coloured feathers 

 give the bird its name, and, when the wing is closed, 

 it has a coloured margin or framing at the butts of the 

 wings, running round it, which must be regular, and not too 

 broad. When well-marked, the Stork is considered one of 

 the finest feather varieties in Germany. 



The Bavette Pigeon. 



The Bavette Pigeon, which I have so named from its white 

 bib, has been introduced into this country within the last few 

 years. As will be seen from the illustration, it is nearly 

 the reverse of the Nun in marking, having a black shell 

 crest, on which the white feathers of the head should not 

 encroach. The bib should come well down on the breast, 

 and be sharply cut. The beak is usually white, and the iris 

 dark hazel. The tail, with its coverts, is white. The legs 

 and feet are stockinged, and white from the hocks down. 

 The position, size, and shape of the shell crest should be as 

 in the Nun. The only colour I have seen in this variety is black. 



