SS Fiincv P/o'coiis. 



In the descriptions of both swallow and Carmelite, Boitard and Corbie 

 apply the word " manteau " to the winf^ coverts, as reference to their 

 letterpress and illustratii will show. 



CHAPTl'R XXV. 



THE STORK PIGEON. 



Die Si'orch odef ScJiirintjeiitaiil'e, stork or wing pigeon of Germany, ia in 

 size and shape similar to the spot pig-eon, with which it has in common 

 the coloured spot on the brow, black, red, yellow, or blue. If the spot ia 

 small, the upper mandible may be white, but it ia usually coloured if the 

 spot ia extensive. The head may be either smooth, peaked, or shell 

 created. The eye is hazel-coloured. The legs and feet are preferred 

 heavily hocked and feathered, and are coloured from the knee down, the 

 hock feathers themselves being white. The ten flight feathers in each 

 wing should be coloured, and all the rest of the bird must be white, 

 except the feathers of the spurious wing and a few feathers about the 

 wing butts. These coloured feathers give the bird ita name, and when 

 the wing ia closed it has a coloured margin or framing at the butts of the 

 wings running round it, which must be regular and not too broad. 

 When well marked, the stork is considered one of the finest feather 

 varieties in Germany. It has been already described in a late publica- 

 tion, under the name of "Spot Fairy," or "Fairy SwaUow," but the 

 chief part of its marking has not been mentioned, the coloured butts of 

 the wings having probably been considered as foul instead of fancy 

 marks. 





