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man and a Cropper, experience teaches us, it will add a wonderful beauty 

 to this bird, and raise in it the five following properties. 



1. Length of Body. 



2. Length of Legs. 



3. Neatness of Crop. 



4. Slenderness of Girt. 



5. Beauty in Feather. 



his Pouters, how it was possible he could have reduced the English Pouters down to 

 such little Lilliputians, or multmn in parvo Pouter, possessing, in an elegant degree, all 

 the properties of the English Pouter. I confess I should have been more pleased to 

 have seen these Pouters with all their beautiftd properties, fine large English Poutera. 

 Sir John no doubt reduced them all he possibly could, as he did the bantams, preserv- 

 ing aU their elegant properties. 



(Eaton.) — It does not follow, simply because Mr. Mooee, in giving the five pro' 

 perties of the English Pouter, taking length of body — he considered length of body the 

 grandest property in an English Pouter, although he wisely takes beauty in feather 

 last. I think Mr. MoORE too good a Fancier to consider their best properties as he has 

 simply arranged them. I will inform you what I think the best properties of the 

 English Pouter, and arrange them in a manner which I believe will meet the approba- 

 tion of the acknowledged best English Pouter Fanciers : — 



1st, Length of Leg (or Limb as it is called) . 



2nd, Slenderness of Girt or Waist. 



8rd, Length of Body, or equally as proper Length of Feather. 



4th, Neatness of Crop. 



5th and last. Beauty in Feather, provided you can obtain it. 

 1st, Length of Leg or Limb. — Now to the law and to the testimony to prove my asser- 

 tion. Eefer to paragraph 202. The Spanish Eunt is the longest bodied of all Pigeons, 

 23 inches in length from the apex of the beak to the extremity of the tail ; they are 

 thick and short-legged, and don't walk erect. Now, if it were possible to put on this 

 bird the most beautiful round and globular crop that ever was seen, — answer me two 

 questions, — 1st. Would the bird, for elegance, look like the English Pouter? 2nd, 

 What name would you call it ? To the first question you would answer it did not look 

 like the English Pouter, standing on legs six inches in length, and thick in girt ; 

 the second question you wotdd be bothered to answer. After some consideration, you 

 would say, the best name to give it would be a Spanish Runt Pouter. Now take an 

 English Pouter, twenty inches in feather (although I never saw one so long), 7^ inches 

 in leg or limb, and compare these birds together, which proves my assertion that length 

 of leg is the first and best property of a Pouter. 



(Eaton.) — 2nd. Property in a Pouter I considered the slenderness of its girt or 

 sraallness of waist, the greater the contrast gives beautiful shape and elegance to the 

 whole bird, the want of this property robs the English Pouter of half its beauty, and it 

 appears like a large ill-shaped thick girted runt. When a Pouter has a slender girt he 

 has other good properties about him, viz. — that of standing well on his legs, good crop, 

 at all events shewing it to greater advantage owing to the contrast, 



(Eaton.) — 3rd. Property of a Pouter, length of body as it is called, although I think 

 it would be as well if the Fanciers had called it length of feather, being from the apex 

 of the beak to the end of the tail, although Mr. Moore says, he had seen one that 

 measured nearly twenty inches, I never, to my knowledge, saw one that was over nine- 

 teen and a half inches, that is a great length, even eighteen inches is a good length, 

 the best Pouter I ever saw, taking it ''all for all," on the five properties ; it had legs or 

 limbs to stand on, it had the most beautiful large round globular crap or crop I ever 

 saw, a small waist or girt, which beautifully shewed the contrast. I acknowledge it 

 might have been better in feather, or that an artist can put the feathers in five minutes 

 which the Fancier cannot breed in twenty years. In a large majestic Pouter (feather in 

 a small insignificant pouting Horseman I am not taking into consideration, here it would 

 be out of place) and yet this English Pouter I am writing off, appeared like a giant 



