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OOLUMBA GUTTUEOSA LUTETl^ vel PARISIOEUM. 



The Parisian Powter. 



180. — This Pigeon was originally bred at Paris (*) and from thence 

 brought to Brussels, whence it was transmitted to us ; it has all the nature 

 of a Powter, but is generally long cropped and not very large, it is short 

 bodied, short legged, and thick in the girt ; what is chiefly admired in this 

 bird, is its feather, which is indeed very beautiful, and peculiar only to it- 

 self, resembling a fine piece of Irish stitch, being chequered with various 

 colours in every feather, except the flight which is white ; the more red it 

 has mixed with the other colours, the more valuable it is : Some are 

 gravel-eyed, and some bull-eyed, but it is equally indifferent which eye it 

 has. 



OOLUMBA GUTTUEOSA SALIENS. The Uploper. 



181. — The Uploper is a Pigeon bred originally in Holland, its make and 

 shape agrees in every respect with the English Powter, only it is smaller 

 in every property. Its crop is very round, in which it generally buries its 

 bill ; its legs are very small and slender, and its toes are short and close 

 together, on which it treads so nicely, that when moving, you may put any- 

 thing under the ball of its foot ; it is close thighed, plays very upright, 

 and when it approaches the hen, generally leaps to her, with its tail spread, 

 which is the reason the name is given to it, from the Dutch word Uplopen, 

 which signifies to leap up. These pigeons are generally all blue, white, or 



Matok's time, compared to what the Almond Tumbler is at the present time, 1858. At 

 this time some of the Almond Tumblers appear as they ought to be (Matoe is correct 

 in stating if Tumblers were kept in separate pens they would show in the same manner 

 and be equally as familiar as the Pout-er. I once had a black mottle hen by talking to 

 it would show equally as well as any Pout-ers, save the Crap or Crop.) I wish it had 

 been possible for Moore or Mayor to have seea the portraits of the Almond and 

 Black mottle Tumblers, and other portraits that will accompany this work, and been 

 able to have read my work on the Almond Tumbler. 



179. (GiRTiN, p. 52.) — The Pouter that approaches nearest all these properties is a 

 very valuable bird, and some Fanciers, by a patient perseverance and great expense, 

 have bred these birds so near the standard prescribed, as to sell them for twenty gui- 

 neas a pair, 



(Eaton, p. 179.) — In my set of six life-size coloured engravings of the Almond 

 Tumbler, Black-mottled, YeUow-beard, Ked Bald-head,. Tumblers, Black Carrier, and 

 Blue-pied English Pouter, I have chosen the Blue-pied as showing the greatest varietj' 

 of feather. Read from Paragraph 168 to Paragraph 175, I cannot help thinldng that 

 if four Pied English Pouters were placed before me, all of equal properties, — the Blue- 

 pied, the Black-pied, the Red-pied, and the Yellow-pied, and I was allowed to make 

 choice of one of these Pouters, provided the Blue-pied was a light bright sky or powder 

 blue, like some of the Owl Pigeons, in colour, with beautiful black bars across 

 the wings, &c., but what I should choose the Blue-pied, owing to the variety of 

 feather in the Blue-pied, and its beautiful black bars across the flight, which I am 

 so great an admirer of, although I am fully sensible that the Black-pied, Red-pied, and 

 Yellow-pied, rank before it. 



* 180. (Mayor, p, 103.) — This bird is vulgarly called called the Parazence Pouter. 



181. (Mayor, p. 105.) — The reason they do not encourage the breed of them here, 

 I should imagine is, having brougt the English Pouter to such perfection ; in fact, it 

 has been reported that in Holland they have asked twenty-five guineas for a single 

 pair of Uplopers, which I must confess I want faith to credit. 



