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corresponding barred colours. Some of them being known, 

 in the Cropper fancy, by different names from what is usual, 

 I here give the Norwich and general nomenclatures : 



ENGLISH POUTER. NORWICH CROPPER. 



Black ... ... Black. 



Bed ... ... Cinnamon. 



Yellow ... ... Yellow. 



Dun ... ... Mouse. 



Blue ... ... Blue. 



Mealy ... ... Dun. 



Yellow-Mealy ... ... Cream. 



Silver ... ... Cloth. 



Black, owing to the practice of breeding the best flying 

 birds together, regardless of their colour, is seldom seen very 

 glossy in Croppers. Some of the best shaped and marked 

 birds I have seen were of this colour. Black pieds are often 

 quite free of objectionable leg feathering, and generally very 

 good fliers. Cinnamons (reds) and yellows are scarce, and 

 difficult to get. I have seen and had well-marked and fairly- 

 coloured birds of both these colours. They are generally 

 somewhat feather-legged, which makes them valuable to 

 breeders of stocking-legged pied Pigmy Pouters. Mouse- 

 coloured Croppers (i.e., dun, as in Carriers) are not common. 

 I was told that the late Mr. Perry, of Yarmouth, had a good 

 bird of this colour, and as I bred one myself from a bird 

 which formerly belonged to him, it may have been a de- 

 scendant of the one he had. 



The great proportion of Croppers are of the bar-winged 

 colours, blue and dun (i.e., mealy) being the commonest. The 

 blue ought, of course, to have black bars, but kite-barred blues 

 are very common. The dun, like all mealy pigeons, has a 

 light tail. Its neck and wing bars ought to be bright red, 

 and its wing coverts of a clear light mealy, when it is called 

 a miller dun. A red dun has the wing coverts of a reddish 

 tinge. Between the miller dun and cinnamon there are many 



