66 LIFE OF TEGETMEIER 



Society was a sort of club which made fancy 

 pigeons its hobby, and dined together once a 

 fortnight at the Freemasons' Tavern, in Great 

 Queen Street, W.C., to discuss matters relating 

 to their interest and the birds which members 

 brought with them for exhibition in cages provided 

 for the purpose. Tegetmeier was also president of 

 the National Peristeronic Society, and it was his 

 presidential address to this body, early in 1873, 

 on "A Breeding for Colour," which formed the 

 basis of the pamphlet " Breeding for Colour and 

 the Physiology of Breeding," written by himself 

 and W. W. Boulton, and published at Beverley, 

 in Yorkshire. His writings on pigeons were 

 voluminous, but as this chapter is already a 

 long one, I must defer their more particular 

 consideration to the next. 



