The Leghorn Runt. loo 



and it may have been 80 produced ; but although the Modenese pigeon 

 sometimes carries the tail raised, it ought to be horizontal, and it is now 

 a very different looking bird from the Florentine. 



Die JSuhnerscheche tauhe, the hen-speckled pigeon, resembles the Mal- 

 tose in its general points, but is seldom so round in build. The 

 head is fine, the wax-coloured, somewhat strong beak, is of the usual 

 length, the neck and legs are somewhat shorter than the Maltese, and 

 it seldom carries its tail so upright. It has often fourteen feathers in 

 the tail ; the inner side of the leg is sometimes provided with short 

 feathers ; the ground colour is white, with black, red, yellow, and blue 

 speckles of a very intense colour. 



Un^ar* sche tauhe, the Hungarian pigeon, is described as follows : 

 By perseverance and chance there has risen from the Florentine the 

 so much liked, beautifully marked, and expensive Hungarian pigeon. It 

 occurs almost only in Austrian Hungary. The nearer it approaches 

 the Maltese in form the better. The colouring of its plumage is 

 beautiful, the black deep and velvety, with metallic sheen, the red and 

 yellow fiery and sated, the blue clear. The mark is the so-called 

 "band" mark which is peculiar to this pigeon. This white band or 

 stripe begins at the nostrils about the breadth of a straw, widens as it 

 goes back, dividing the colouring of the head, and disappears at the 

 nape of the neck, which is white down to the shoulders. The colour, 

 therefore, runs over each eye, turns down by the ears, and forms 

 a deep pear-shaped bib on the breast. Viewed in profile, the front of 

 the neck is coloured, the back of it white. The whole of the wing 

 coverts and scapular feathers, the flights, the tail and its coverts, 

 are coloured. 



Der Monieneur pigeon is the last of this race mentioned by Neu- 

 meister, and I think it is the most likely of any to be the Leghorn 

 runt of Moore, as it is said to excel both the Romain and Montaulan in 

 size. Its description is the following : "A formerly pretty well known, 

 but for long very rare pigeon, which by its gigantic size more resembles a 

 hen than a pigeon. Body and breast strong, provided with a rather short 

 tail, it proves somewhat clumsy in flight, while it moves easily on the 

 ground with its unfeathered rather high legs. The long neck is with 

 the cocks very strong, and the crop when cooing a little more inflated 

 than with common pigeons. In size the Monteneur excels both the 



