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pictures of fancy pigeons, from the pencil of his friond Mr. Dean Wosten- 

 holme. Those are the pouter and carrier, almond, hlack mottle, bald- 

 head, and beard tumblers. Thoy are to be met with of diiierent coloiiring, 

 being republished as the first lot were disposed of. The pouter is a, 

 yellow in some, in others a blue, and the baldhead is blue in some and 

 red in others. The tumblers are very fair pictures, but the pouter is sadly 

 deficient in lines ; while the can-icr is a grand production, as beautiful as 

 a new medal. 



As tho 1852 treatise got sold out, Eaton concentrated his efforts in the 

 production of a larger work, which he published in 18.58, under the title 

 of " A Treatise on the Art of Breeding and Managing Tame, Domesticated, 

 Foreign, and Fancy Pigeons.' ' This contains all of his previous books, and 

 is illustrated with thirty coloured pictures of pigeons, also by Mr. Wosten- 

 holme, the majority of which are not up to the mark for our day. The 

 papers on continental fancy pigeons that had appeared in the Poiiltrt/ 

 Chronicle, from the pen of Mr. B. P. Brent, are included in it, and tho 

 book contains more information on tho subject it treats of than any 

 previously published ; in fact, it is a compilation of the works of all 

 previous writers. It is paged up to 200, but there are some copies that 

 contain some extra pages of opinions of the press on the book itself. 

 These copies seem to have been made up two years later, some of the 

 notices being dated in 1860. 



In ISCO Eaton published a second set of six coloured portraits of 

 pigeons, like the first, from the pencil of Mr. Wostenholme. These are 

 the white fantail, yellow jacobin, silver owl, blue turbit, black mottled 

 trumpeter, and black barb. Specimens of some of these varieties have 

 been introduced into this country from abroad, of late years, that put 

 these pictures as standards to one side. 



These are a list of Mr. Eaton's publications on the subject of fancy 

 pigeons, except " A New and Improved Coloured Diagram, or a Plan of 

 Building or Fitting up a Pigeonary, embellished with tumblers, pouters, 

 and carriers, price 23.," which is not of much account. It shows nesting 

 places of different sizes to suit the different kinds. 



Eaton's books are getting scarce. The largest and best, that of 1858, 

 which contains aU of the previous ones, if quite clean and perfect, is not 

 dear at a guinea. 



Moubray's treatise of breeding, rearing, and fattening of domestic 



