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OTHER ASIAN PIGEONS. 



they arrived in France, showing that they had been favourites 

 of someone. It is a general custom in Hindostan for fanciers 

 to ornament their pigeons in this way. 



M. la Perre de Roo, in his Monograph on Domestic Pigeons, 

 published in Paris, in 1883, names this variety Le Pigeon 

 Voyageur de Beyrouth, being under the impression, when he 

 wrote his account of them, that they came from Syria; but 

 since then has informed me he had discovered they came from 

 Pekin, in the way I have mentioned. I think it likely that 

 other curious breeds of pigeons may still reach us from the 

 same source. 



