So Fancy Pigeons. 



metallic lustre. Neumeister also mentions whole red and whole yellow 

 archangels, and the following varieties: 



1. Archangels with white wings, back, rump, and tail. These, if the 

 same on their neck and breast feathering as the standard bird, viz., dark 

 underneath on all their copper feathers may be called a variety of the 

 archangel. If only ordinary red or yellow, the under parts of the 

 feathers being white, they are breast pigeons. The white archangel 

 would, however, require to be coppered back to the vent, whereas the 

 breaster, as described, is belted across before the thighs. 



2. Spiegel ^impel, or mirror bullfinches, are like the preceding, but 

 with yellow wing bars. This is, perhaps, the same rare variety that he 

 mentions as occurring among the breast pigeons. 



3. Standard archangels, with white mask or forehead spot, and white 

 upper mandible. 



4. The same, with white flight feathers. 



5. Standard archangels, with white head or helmet, as in the calotte 

 pigeon, and wliite upper mandible. 



6. The same, with white flight feathers. 



7. Standard archangels, with white wing bars — a rarity. 



8. Standard archangels, with double crests, or a trumpeter's rose on 

 the forehead. 



Any of these varieties would only be interesting if got without sacrific- 

 ing the more important points of the archangel — its colour and lustre. 

 The illustration is from a fine bird, winner of many prizes, lent me by 

 Mr. John Cowe, of Aberdeen. 





