102 FANCY PIGEONS. 



with that of the Hyacinth of Boitard and Corbie (1824), the 

 French authors. 



The Carp-scale Pigeon. 



This pigeon, known in Germany as the Karpfenschuppige 

 Taube, is of the common type. It is smooth-headed, red or 

 yellow-eyed, and has its legs covered with feathers of a 

 medium length. Its colour is dark blue, with lustrous neck, 

 except the mantle or shoulders, which are chequered as in 

 the French Hyacinth and its sub-varieties. Some years ago, 

 specimens were occasionally exhibited in this country under 

 the name of Hyacinths. I have bred a number of them, and 

 found that they varied in colour in the same way as dark 

 Blondinettes, which they resembled in colour very much, 

 except in having no white marks on flight and tail feathers. 

 The nestling feathers are of a dull, rusty hue, which disappears 

 after the first moult, when some become laced, and others 

 arrow-pointed on the wing coverts. 



The Annatalozia Pigeon. 



Such is the name of a pretty Toy Pigeon, which comes from 

 Asia Minor. It is of the size of a common Tumbler; smooth- 

 headed and grouse-legged ; short-beaked, and yellow or orange- 

 eyed; marked on the head like a Nun or Domino, either 

 black, blue, red, or yellow, and with coloured primary flight 

 feathers to correspond, the rest of the plumage being white. 



The Red Indian Pigeon 



Is another breed of Asia Minor, which has the make and 

 shape of a common, clean-legged, large, flying Tumbler. Its 

 colour is a glossy, burning, blood red, to the ends of the 

 flight and tail feathers. It has been used as a cross to give 

 colour to red and yellow Dragoons. 



