Bald-pate 



TurMt. Fantail. 



CHAPTER IV. 



DOMESTIC PIGEONS. 



FANTAILS; their powers. Effects of crossing. Accident to one. Pigeon 

 Paon. The lean poet of Cos. Runts. Pigeon mondains. Comparison of eggs 

 and weights. Synonyms of Runts. Runts at sea. Rodney's bantam. Pecu- 

 liarities of Runts. Runts in Italy. Effects of crossing. Trumpeters. Arch- 

 angel Pigeons. Nuns. Jacobines. Columbarian distinctions. Supposed cari- 

 cature. Turbits. Temminck's ideas. Owls. Progress of the young. Rapid 

 growth. Barbs. Tumblers. Their performance in the air. Feats of wing. 

 The Almond. Peculiarity of form. Learning to tumble. Baldpates. Hel- 

 mets. Powters and Croppers. Their carriage, flight, and colouring. Defects 

 and remedies. Crosses. Carriers. Castle of the birds. How they find their 

 way. Phrenological hypothesis. Carriers in Turkey. Sir John Ross's birds. 

 Explanation. Antwerp Carriers. De Beranger. English Carriers. Oriental 

 origin. Lace and Frizzled Pigeons. Eggs and young of the Columbidye. 

 Quarrels and attachments. Mating. Love of home. Food. Merits of the 

 Runts. Etymology of the Trumpeter. 



FANTAILS are by no means the miserable degraded 

 monsters that many writers would induce us to believe 



