101 PIGEONS OF COLOUR. 



" The Parisian Powter. This Pigeon was originally bred at 

 Paris, and from thence brought to Brussels, whence it was 

 transmitted to us; it has all the Nature of a Powter, but 

 is generally long crop'd, and not very large; it is short - 

 bodied, short-leg'd, and thick in the girt. What is chiefly 

 admir'd in this Bird is its Feather, which is indeed very 

 beautiful and peculiar only to it self, resembling a fine piece 

 of Irish stitch, being chequer'd with various Colours in every 

 Feather, except the flight, which is white ; the more red it has 

 intermix'd with the other Colours the more valuable it is. 

 Some are Gravel ey'd, and some bull ey'd, but it is equally 

 indifferent which eye it has." If for " every feather " we read 

 the wing coverts which are the only feathers, except the 

 flights and tail, that can possibly be spangled in pigeons in 

 the above way Moore's description of the Parisian Pouter, 

 (the Parazence Pouter of the treatise of 1765), agrees with 

 that of the sub-varieties of the Pigeon Maille Jacinthe, or 

 Hyacinth. 



The Polish Lynx Pigeon. 



This pigeon, according to Priitz, has only lately been intro- 

 duced, by Professor J. B. Yon Rozwadowsky, of Cracow, to 

 the notice of German fanciers. It is described as a large, 

 plain-headed and legged bird, measuring about 15in. from the 

 beak to the end of the tail, strongly-built, low, and broad- 

 chested; a good forager at all seasons of the year, a free 

 breeder, and especially good as a table bird. Its general 

 appearance is that of a slightly inflated Pouter. The colours 

 of the breed are black and blue; the same with white wing 

 bars; also others with both white bars and white scales, or 

 chequers, on the wing coverts. Sometimes the flight feathers 

 are white. Beds and yellows are not known. 



This is the description of the Polnische Luchstaube, as 

 given by Priitz, and it seems to coincide in some respects 



