Chapter XVIII. 



X PIGEONS OF PECULIAR VOICE. X> 

 The Trumpeter Pigeon. 



HE Trumpeter Pigeon has been known in this 

 country since Moore's time, and is common 

 on the Continent of Europe. In France it is 

 called the Pigeon Tambour Glou-glou, and in 

 Germany, the Trommeltaube, or Drummer. Its 

 various names are, therefore, all derived from its voice, which, 

 not being reckoned of any consequence in the show-pen, may 

 be left unnoticed till I describe the form and feather of this 

 wonderful pigeon. Until soon after the year 1865, when some 

 very high-class Trumpeters were imported into this country, 

 the breed appears to have remained almost stationary since 

 Moore described it. The earliest picture of a Trumpeter I 

 know of is that in the Treatise of 1765, which represents a 

 very poor Black Mottle, with black flights and tail, and white 

 body, over which is sprinkled about thirty-five black feathers. 

 It has black thighs and leg-feathering, but is bare toed. The 

 author of that book, who copied his description of the breed 

 from Moore, says " they are generally pearl-eyed, black mottled, 

 very feather-footed and legged, turn crowned like the Nun, and 



