20 Fancy Pigeons. 



ISGO : Weber, D. A., " Der Taubenfreund, oder nriindliolier Unterricht 

 iu der Taubenziicht," '2nd edition, Qaedliuburg, 1850 ; Woltmann, J. J., 

 " Der Taubensclilag oder die Wartimg nnd Pflcgo," thirteen plates, 

 Altona, 187(5. 



In 1878 there was published at Dresden a new book on poultry and 

 pigeons, entitled " Illustrirtea Handbuch der Federviehzuoht," by Dr. 

 A. E. E. Baldamus. Vol. I. contains information on fowls, ducks, g-eese, 

 &c. ; and Vol. II. is chiefly on pigeons. It appears to be a compilation 

 from Neumeister, Priitz, and Fulton. It ia a large octavo of 4.52 pages, 

 beautifully printed, and well illustrated with good woodcuts, copied in 

 small from Mr. Ludlow's illustrations to Fulton's pigeon book. 



The Italian publications on fancy pigeons are confined, as far as I 

 know, to descriptions of the Modenese flying pigeons. The first book on 

 this subject was C. Malmusi's "Dei Triganieri : cenni storici " (Histori- 

 cal notices of the Triganieri — technical name for the Modenese pigeon 

 flyers). This is a rare little book ; it was published in 1851 in Modena, 

 being reprinted from the journal V Indtcatoru Modenese. Professor 

 Bonizzi says regarding it, " The author has collected, from books and 

 archives, all that can be known of the history of the Triganieri, and 

 speaks with much learning about their origin and their sport." 



In 187i, Dr. Fulvio Martinelli, published at Modena, in folio, a work 

 of 107 pages, entitled " Memoria Sulla CoUezione di Colombi nostrali," 

 regarding which Bonizzi says, " From which title everyone would certainly 

 expect the description of a collection of pigeons ; whereas, instead, the 

 memorial commences as if it were a general treatise on pigeons, and 

 continues giving stupid arguments ; it speaks so little and so confusedly 

 about the Modenese pigeons, that I believe it is impossible to form an 

 idea of them from it. I hoped then to find iu it useful notices about the 

 breeding, to sec verified in it the experiments which I supposed had been 

 made by the author with our pigeons, but I was disappointed in this 

 expectation." 



In 1872 there was published by the Societa Veneto-Trentina di Scienze 

 Naturali, an admirable treatise on the Modenese pigeons, entitled " Le 

 Variazioni dei Colombi Domestici, di Modena, di Paolo Bonizzi." This is 

 paged 205-312. and illustrated with two folding coloured plates, containing 

 in all twenty varieties of the Triganioa pigeon. This treatise is the work 

 of a scholar and fancier, and goes thoroughly into its subject. 



