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the breast. Viewed in profile, the front of the neck is 

 coloured, the back of it white. The whole of the wing 

 coverts and scapular feathers, the flights, the tail and its 

 coverts, are coloured. 



The foregoing descriptions of the Huhnerschecke and 

 Ungar'sche Tauben are from Priitz's Die Arten der Hanstaube, 

 and the third edition of Neumeister's work, edited by Priitz ; 

 but the latter, in his new work on pigeons, presently pub- 

 lishing in Hamburg, describes the Huhnerschecke at great 

 length, and gives illustrations of its head and neck, from 

 which it appears to answer the above description of the 

 Hungarian Pigeon, a breed he no longer notices. There 

 seems to have been more than one name for the same breed, 

 but, until I see the various sub-varieties of the race, I shall 

 not be able to give a more intelligible account of them. It 

 is a pity that taste among fanciers in this country does not 

 tend more in the direction of the numerous beautiful varie- 

 ties existing abroad; we might then see, at the large shows, 

 more variation in form and feather than we have been accus- 

 tomed to, and the long lines of Homing Antwerps, which are 

 not really exhibition pigeons, would be replaced by something 

 worth looking at. 



The Monteneur Pigeon. 



The Monteneur Pigeon is the last of this race mentioned 

 by Neumeister, and I think it is the most likely of any to 

 be the Leghorn Runt of Moore, as it is said to excel both 

 the Romain and Montauban in size. Its description is as 

 follows : " A formerly pretty well known, but for long very 

 rare, pigeon, which, by its gigantic size, more resembles a 

 hen than a pigeon. Body and breast strong, provided with 

 a rather short tail. It proves somewhat clumsy in flight, 

 while it moves easily on the ground with its unfeathered, 

 rather high, legs. The long neck is, with the cocks, very 

 strong, and the crop, when cooing, a little more inflated 



