R O CK-D O VES — D O ME STIC A TED PIGE ONS 



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sometimes during a shower it will lie on one side and raise the opposite wing to 

 allow the rain to wash the body feathers, this habit being common to other doves. 



The rock-dove has a total length of 13 inches, and in colour is chiefly greyish 

 blue. The lower part of the back is white, the wings have two broad black bars, 





FANCY PIGEONS. 



the axillaries are white, and the legs dark red. In appearance it much resembles 



ordinary domesticated pigeons, of which indeed it is the ancestral form. 



Domesticated The variations in colour and marking and the differences in the 



Pigeons. shape and size of domesticated pigeons afford a most striking example 



of what can be done by careful selection during a long period of years. Many of 



