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I induced my father, who was with me, to buy me a pair of 

 blue Turbits and a pair of black Jacobins. Several hundreds 

 of pairs were descended from the Turbits, which bred in-and-in 

 for fifteen years without any of the bad results which are 

 generally supposed to follow such a course. According to the 

 London Catalogue of Books, Rogers' " Pigeon Fancier's Guide " 

 was published in 1844. 



(2.) "THE PIGEON KEEPER. By James Rogers. Seventh 

 Edition. London: Dean & Son, Ludgate Hill." This has 

 no date, but was published in 1860, at 6d., in paper covers. 

 It is an exact reprint, on forty-four pages, of "The Pigeon 

 Fancier's Guide," but has no folding plate. 



(3.) " PIGEONS: How TO REAR, BREED, AND KEEP. By 

 James Rogers. New Edition, Revised by F. Crook, Esq. 

 32 pages. London: Dean & Son, E.G." A third form of 

 Rogers' book; no date, but published in 1880, at 6d., in 

 illustrated paper covers. The arrangement slightly altered, 

 and a few additions by Mr. Crook. 



(4.) "POULTRY AND PIGEONS. By J. Moffat and J. Rogers. 

 Revised by F. Crook, Esq. With Oil-colour Illustrations. 

 London : Dean & Son, Ludgate Hill." Two of Dean's pamphlets, 

 issued in one volume, with the oil-colour plates from Meall's 

 1854 Edition of "Moubray" added. The pigeon part is the 

 same as No. 3. No date, but published in 1880. 



"OuR DOMESTIC FOWLS AND SONG BIRDS. By W. C. L. 

 Martin. London." No' date (published 1847). 16mo. The 

 author, who devotes about thirty-eight pages to "The Colum- 

 bine, or Pigeon Group," acknowledges that he was "not of 

 the fancy ; " but he writes in a sensible way of the origin of 

 domestic pigeons, and gives a good account of the uses of 

 Carrier pigeons, from various authentic sources. 



"THE PIGEON FANCIER'S ASSISTANT: CONTAINING PLAIN 

 DIRECTIONS FOR BREEDING AND REARING EVERY DESCRIP- 

 TION OF FANCY PIGEON. By G. Bignold, Dog, Rabbit, and 

 Pigeon Breeder and Dealer, Leadenhall Market, London. 



