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Pullets — 1st premium, Daniel Allen, Gait, Ontario. 



2d premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York Mills, N. Y. 

 3d premium, H. M. Thomas, Brooklin, Ontario. 



SILVER GRAY. 



Cocks— 1st special premium, G. H. "Warner, New York 

 Mills, N. Y. 

 2d premium — no award. 

 Hens — 1st special premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York 

 Mills, N. Y. 

 2d premium — no award. 

 Cockerels — 1st special premium, E. H. Peck, Earlville, Ohio. 

 2d premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York Mills, N. Y. 

 3d premium — no award. 

 Pullets — 1st special premium, B. H. Peck, Earlville, Ohio. 

 2d premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York Mills, N. Y. 

 Judges — Philander Williams, Mass. ; Seward Merry, 

 N. Y.; P. J. Kinney, Mass. 



CLASS 4— HAMBURG. 



GOLDEN SPANGLED. 



Cocks— 1st special premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 



2d premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 



3d premium, W. H. Todd, Vermilion, Ohio. 

 Hens — 1st special premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 



2d premium, G. B. Hayes, Buffalo, N. Y. 



3d premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N Y. 

 Cockerels — lstspecial premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N.Y. 



2d premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 



3d premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 

 Pullets — 1st special premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 



2d premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 



3d premium, W. H. Todd, Vermilion, Ohio. 

 Judges— K. M. Griffith, Del.; P. W. Hudson, Conn.; 

 M. H. Cryer, Ohio. 



(To be continued.) 



It*m0 QxAmstinq and ^muring. 



Works on Pancy Pigeons. — The books that have been 

 written on fancy pigeons have not been many. First, Moore's 

 " Columbarium," published in 1735. This book, scarcely 

 more than a pamphlet, is now very scarce and valuable ; it 

 is excellent, and the foundation of all our correct knowledge. 

 Then followed the " Treatise on Domestic Pigeons," pub- 

 lished in 1765. This is Moore's work enlarged, with illus- 

 trations of each bird. There is an edition of this work on 

 larger paper and superior engravings, a copy of which I 

 have seen. Next, in about 1800, came the " The Complete 

 Pigeon Pancier," by Daniel Girton, in substance like the 

 two former, but enlarged. This book has illustrations. It 

 may sometimes be bought for Is. at a bookstall, being 

 much more common than the two former. In 1802 was pub- 

 lished a "Treatise on the Almond Tumbler " only. This 

 was the next book in value after Moore's. It has a picture 

 of a standard Almond of that date. Dixon's " Dovecote 

 and Aviary " saw the light in 1851. It is prettily written, 

 but no authority on high fancy matters ; it is now out of 

 print ; its substance, with illustrations by Harrison Weir, 

 may be bought for Is., under the name of " Pigeons and 

 Rabbits," being one of Eoutledge's " Books for the Coun- 

 try." Eaton's "Treatise on the Almond Tumbler, " came 

 out in 1851. It is now incorporated in his "Treatise on 

 Pigeons," and since the death of Mr. Eaton is to be bought 

 of its able illustrator, Mr. Dean Wolstenholme, Elizabeth 

 Cottage, Archway Koad, Highgate, price 10s. The " Pig- 

 eon Book," by Brent, with many illustrations, published at 

 the office of this journal, is a practical and able work. Teg- 

 etmeier's " Pigeons," with colored illustrations, was sentout 

 in 1868, price, I think, 10s. 6d. More recently the same 

 author has published a shilling book on "The Homing or 

 Carrier Pigeon." — Wiltshire Rector. 



The Zoological Garden at Pairmount Park in time will 

 be an interesting place to visit. What are particularly 

 needed there are native American animals. Lions, tigers, 

 leopards, &c, are familiar to every child, but not more than 

 one in a thousand of our population has ever seen a grizzly 

 bear, panther, buffalo, silver fox, and many other native 

 animals that could be obtained at a comparatively small ex- 

 pense. On Saturda}- last the first invoice was received in this 

 city for the garden, and consisted of eighty-six specimens 

 of wild animals and reptiles from the Eocky Mountains. 



Horses are a drug in Australia. In many of the old dis- 

 tricts of New South Wales they run wild in thousands ; they 

 are not worth looking after, and are very difficult to collect 

 in any way ; they eat the food of other profitable stock, and 

 are only a scourge upon the pastures. Hence they have to 

 be exterminated like vermin. In many parts of the coun- 

 try they are shot by hired men, for so much per head, and 

 are collected and destroyed systematically. They abound in 

 wild mobs upon mountains of the most rugged and inaccessi- 

 ble character, as well as upon the wildest plains of the in- 

 terior ; alwaj's degenerating, becoming smaller, -weaker, and 

 wilder. 



A Hartford gentleman recently communicated the fol- 

 lowing incident to a local paper: " A yound dove, unable 

 to fly but a short distance, dropped from its nest, which is in 

 the eaves of a barn located just outside the city, and after 

 several excursions of the parent bird from the nest to the 

 ground, and vice vers&,\n which itshowed by its actions that 

 it desired the young one to follow, finally, seeing that the 

 younger could not fly to the nest, walked along on the ground 

 cooing to the younger to follow, until it reached the foot of 

 a ladder which was standing against the barn, the upper end 

 of which was but a short distance from the nest, and hop- 

 ping from round to round actually succeeded in bringing the 

 infant bird to its parent nest." 



The following incident is said to have occurred recently 

 in Knoxville, Tenn. A lady had a false tooth which had 

 become loose, and recently, while out in the yard feeding her 

 chickens, she sneezed very hard, when the tooth fell out and 

 was at once swallowed by one of the chickens. The lady 

 kept her eye on that same chicken, and, as soon as possible, 

 effected a capture, when she felt of the craw until she dis- 

 covered a substance she took to be her tooth, and, taking a 

 knife, the craw was opened at that place, the tooth taken 

 out, and again closed with needle and thread, and the 

 chicken released. The chicken is still living and well, 

 though full of resolution never to again to swallow a tooth, 

 while the lady sports a full set of teeth again. 



The Hartford Times tells a curious story of a flock of 

 crows in that vacinity who recently lost their way in a fog. 

 They lost their bearings at a point directly above the South 

 Green, in Hartford. For a good while they hovered there, 

 coming low down, circling and diving aimlessly about, like 

 a blindfold person in " blind man's buff," and keeping up 

 a hoarse cawing and general racket beyond description. It 

 was plain enough that of the entire company each indi- 

 vidual crow was not only puzzled and bothered, but highly 

 indignant, and inclined to utter " cuss words " in his frantic 

 attempts to be heard above the general din, and tell the 

 others which way to go. Once or twice the whole flock 

 swept down to a distance of not more than one hundred feet 

 above the street. Finally, after going around for many 

 times they sailed away in a southerly direction, evidently 

 having got some clue to the way out of the fog, or desper- 

 ately resolved to go somewhere till they could see daylight. 



