NOTES 
AND 
COMMENTS. 
Basy pigeons are not fed in the usual bird 
way, but they thrust thei bill 
into the parent’s throat and 
the old bird injects the food 
which he or she had previously swallowed, 
at the same time working its head up 
and down with a pump-like action and at 
such a rapid rate that it was only after 
many trials that this photograph was ob- 
tained by 
Whe, df, 40h 
Newman, 
who sent it 
to us for 
publication. 
Ie 
An 
Egg within 
an Egg. 
A Unique 
Photograph. 
To the same 
gentleman 
we are in- 
debted for the 
photograph 
of a curious 
freak in the 
shape of a 
double egg 
which was 
discovered by 
Master Percy 
Dickins, of 
Photo by J. TD. Newman, Berkhampstead. 
AN EGG WITHIN AN EGG. 
Photo by : 
J. T. Newman, 
Berkhampstead. —— 
A PIGEON FEEDING ITS YOUNG. 
Guinscote, Northants. The outside egg was 
of ordinary size, and contained inside a 
complete but smaller egg properly covered 
with a shell. 
ie 
Mr. FInn writes: “The accompanying photo- 
eraph illustrates one of the 
most remarkable variations to 
which the domestic fowl is 
subject—absence of the neck-feathering. 
This particular hen was reared by Mr. 
W. Barrick, of Walthamstow (who sent the 
particulars and photograph to Mr. G. A. 
Doubleday), and was the only bird so 
characterised reared out of a sitting of eggs. 
When killed, it was six months old and 
weighed four pounds. At the last Crystal 
Palace Poultry Show two hens showing this 
curious variation were exhibited; they were 
very similar to the bird m the present 
illustration. There would seem to be a 
breed which truly transmits this somewhat 
unsightly peculiarity, for on the chronicling 
of the appearance of the present bird in 
the ‘People’ newspaper, Professor A. IL. 
Lavault wrote from Nevers to say that at 
‘L’ Allemande,’ a large farm in the depart- 
ment of the Nievre, there was a truly- 
propagated race of bare-necked fowls. 
These came originally from Hnegland, and 
I have seen a statement in an English 
poultry-book that a bare-necked breed 
Bare=necked 
Fowls. 
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