Q13. — The Jacobine ought to have a very short bill, the shorter the bet- 

 ter, and a clean pearle eye. 



214. — As for the feather, there are reds, yellows, blues, blacks, and 

 mottles ; but be the feather what it will, they ought to have a clean 

 white head, white flight, and white tail. 



215.— Of these Pigeons some are feather-legged and footed, others are 

 not, and both sorts are equally esteemed, according to the various inclina- 

 tion of different fanciers. (*) 



OOLUMBA OUOULLATA MINOR. The Capuchine. 



216. — This Pigeon is in shape and make very like the Jacobine, and 

 has its name like the former from another set of hooded ecclesiastics. 



217. — It is something larger in body than the Jack, its beak longer, it 

 has a tolerable hood but no chain, it is in feather (-f-) and other properties 

 the same. Some will assert it to be a distinct species, but I am more in- 

 clinable to imagine it is only a bastard breed from a Jacobine and another 

 Pigeon ; however, thus far I am sure, that a Jack and another will 

 breed a bird so like it, as will puzzle the authors of this assertion to dis- 

 tinguish it, from what they call their separate species. (J) 



COLUMBA YESTALIS. The Nun. 



218. — The Ruff should in proper order have been next inserted, as 

 being nearest in kind to the two foregoing ; but we choose rather to intro- 

 duce the Nun in this place, that she might be as near as possible to those 



hood, with the chain reaching to the shoulders (perhaps a high admixture with a clean 

 marked short-faced Baldheaded Tumbler, if judiciously used, would be advantageous in 

 this matter) ; but as the in and in breeding, if carried to any extent, will weaken the 

 birds and reduce their prolificness, the advantage derived must be in the enhanced 

 value of the produce. 



* 215. (Mayob p. 116.) — In France and Holland they have brought this species to 

 much greater perfection than in England, for of late years they have been much neg- 

 lected here, which I think the greater pity, as they are by far the most pleasing of any 

 of the toy Pigeons whatever. A very ingenious gentleman of my acquaintance and 

 an exceeding good Fancier, as well as a great Naturalist, being at Paris last summer, 

 purchased two pairs of these birds, and charged himself with the trouble and care of 

 bringing them over to England, which he effected in order to restore the true original 

 breed of them, but was prevented in that, by a cat getting into his loft, and thereby de- 

 stroying them all. 



215. (Mayok, p. 117.) — The follovnng being in itself so uncommon, and a Fact, I 

 cannot help taking notice of it : — A person the other day passing through Fleet Street, 

 seeing a print of this bird at a shop window, stopped to make his observations thereon, 

 and having well viewed it he went in and purchased it, declaring to the seller, th^t he 

 never saw a stronger hkeness in his life, and, as for the wig, it was exactly the same he 

 always wore, for he imagined it altogether a caricature of one of his intimate acquaint- 

 ances ; and the person of whom he bought it, did not think it necessary at that time to 

 undeceive him. 



(t 217. Mayor, p. 121.) — Its feather is various, sometimes blue, red, yellow, mot- 

 tled, black, &c. ; but should, like the Jack, always have a clean white head, white flight, 

 and white tail, and a pearl eye. 



(+ 217. Mayor, p. 122.) — ^These sort are in very small esteem among Fanciers, though 

 each particular species have their admirers. 



