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poultry, a work first published about 1815, containing a little, at second 

 baud, on the subject o£ fancy pigeons, ran through many editions. In 

 1S54, the last edition, much enlarged, was pubUshed under the editorship 

 of Mr. L. Meall and Dr. Horner. This has several coloured plates, one 

 of which contains the figures of fancy pigeons, including the pouter and 

 carrier, evidently copied from Eaton's large portraits of 1852. In the 

 letterpress there are notices of the principal kinds of fancy pigeons, 

 evidently not from the pen of a fancier. The origin of the word turbit, 

 which seems to have piTzzled previous writers, is correctly given here for 

 the first time, I believe. 



The Poultn/ Chronicle, a weekly periodical, began on the let of 

 March, 1854, was continued for seventy-seven weeks, the last number 

 being published on loth August, 1855, when it was incorporated with the 

 Cottage Gardener. Complete sets of it, generally bound in three volumes, 

 small quarto, may be occasionally met with, at from 10s. to 20s., according 

 to condition. It is very interesting as the first journal devoted to the 

 poultry and pigeon fancy. Many names are mentioned in its pages 

 unknown to the present generation, while others are still extant in the 

 prize lists of the day. In its pages, under the heading of the " Colum- 

 bary," the late Mr. Brent contributed many papers on fancy pigeons, 

 which were republished in Eaton's largest book. 



"The Pigeon Book," by B. P. Brent, is a small duodecimo of 114 

 pages, containing his writings in the PoiiUri/ Chronicle, Cottage Gardener, 

 &o. It is illustrated with what the title-page calls "highly finished" 

 engravings, but some of them are very unintelligible, and more like 

 medifeval "icons " than modern pictures. Most of them are copied from 

 the French work on pigeons by Boitard and Corbie, to be afterwards 

 mentioned. The book contains much information on French and German 

 fancy pigeons. 



The modern works on fancy pigeons, by Mr. Tegetmeier and Mr. Fulton, 

 will be famUiar to aU fanciers. They are handsome books, well illustrated 

 with coloured plates, the former by Mr. Harrison Weir and the latter by 

 Mr. J.W.Ludlow, of Birmingham. " The Practical Pigeon Keeper," 

 by Lewis Wright, published October, 1879, is a book of 232 pages, 

 illustrated chiefly from the same blocks as the book by Baldamus, 

 published at Dresden in 1878, to be afterwards mentioned. 



The Ponltrii Review, an extinct periodical, begun on 21st June, 1873, 



