119 THE TRIGANICA. 



black, red, and white. Oddities, having one wing of one 

 colour, and the other of another colour. I had lately some 

 good Triganica Pigeons, light blue in colour, marbled on the 

 shoulders with dark blue, and with yellow wing bars, like the 

 coloured illustration. 



These pigeons are bred by many fanciers who have neither 

 time nor inclination for the sport as practised by the Tri- 

 ganieri proper. Some of the colours are rare, and only in 

 the hands of their producers, who are so jealous of parting 

 with them that they would rather destroy their surplus stock 

 than let the breed out of their hands. The magpies present 

 the same difficulties in breeding as other pied pigeons, 

 coloured feathers in the parts that should be white, and 

 vice versa, troubling the breeders in Modena as much as 

 they do us in our pied varieties; so that a perfectly marked 

 pigeon is a rarity, and is, consequently, valuable. 



