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COLUMBA GALETEA. The Helmet. 



^23. — This Pigeon is much about the size of a Nun, or somewhat big- 

 ger. The head, tail, and flight-feathers of the wings, are are always of 

 one colour, as black, red, yellow ; and I have been informed there are 

 some blue, and all the rest of the body white, so that the chief difference 

 between them and the Nun is, that they have no hood on the hinder part 

 of the head, and are generally gravel-eyed. 



224. — They are called Helmets from their heads being covered with a 

 plumage which is distinct in colour from the body, and appears somewhat 

 like a helmet to cover the head. 



COLUMBA CUCULLATA EUDIS. The Buff. 



225. — This Pigeon is larger than the true original Jacobine, though in 

 shape and make much the same. (*) 



226. — It has a longer beak, the irides of the eyes in some are of a 

 pearl-colour, in others of a gravel colour, the feathers of its hood and 

 chain are much longer, though the chain does not come down so low to 

 the shoulders of the wings, neither are they near so compact and close as the 

 others, but are apt to blow about with every blast of wind, fall more back- 

 ward off the head, and lie in a rough confused manner, whence the 

 Pigeon has its name. 



227. — The strain of Jacobines has been much vitiated by matching 

 them to this Pigeon, in order to improve their chain by the length of 

 the Ruff's feathers, but instead of this, the Jack is bred larger, longer 

 beaked, looser in its hood and chain, and in short worsted in all its ori- 

 ginal properties. 



COLUMBA IN GYRUM FLECTENS. The FmniJdn. 

 228. — This Pigeon is in make and shape very like a common Runt, 



223. (Brent.) —This toy, like the preceding, is evidently descended from a German 

 race, namely, the " Kappen," or " Platten-Tummler," or " Burzel taube ;" but, like 

 the foregoing, their Tumbler properties have been disregarded, and the birds are rarely 

 much thought of, though their pretty appearance ought to bring them some admirers ; 

 the upper mandible is dark, the lower light, the top of the head is coloured, either 

 red or yellow, in a line from the beak through the eye, which gives the appearance of 

 the bird's wearing a cap or helmet, whence the name ; the tail also coloured the same 

 as the head, and in those that have feathers on the feet, they are likewise coloured ; 

 the whole of the remainder of the plumage is spotless w^hite. 



223. (Beent.) — The old-fashioned Helmet Pigeon, with dark flights, as described by 

 Mr. Moore, 1735, I have never seen. 



■* 225. (Mayor, p. 119.) — Insomuch that they have been frequently sold for such, to 

 those who have not thoroughly understood the properties belonging to the Jack. 



226. (Mayor, p. 120.)— Their feather is also the same as that of the Jack; so 

 that it is not so much to be wondered at, that those who were unacquainted with the 

 properties of the true original Jack, should have a Euff imposed upon them in its 

 stead ; but I hope we have sufficiently described the Ruif to be worse than the Jack 

 in all its properties, so as to prevent future impositions of that kind. 



226. (Brent.) — ^The Ruff is a large variety of the Jacobin, and derives its name 

 from the loose and disordered appearance of its hood and chain. 



228. (Brent.) — If the Trumpeter and Laughing Pigeons are curious on account 



