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The jacobin is known in Prance aa the Pigeon Nonnain, or Pigeon 

 Nonnain Capucin. A variety mentioned by Boitard and Corbie aa the 

 Zfo?niam Mmirm is described as follows: "It is black, with the head, 

 tail, and flight white. It is of a size above the ordinary nuns " (iVoii- 

 nains, i.e., jacobins), " approaching to that of pouters. It has, like the 

 latter, the habit of inflating its throat a little. It haa an elegant form, 

 and the ruff o£ feathers raised gracefully, but it ia not very productive." 

 Dixon, in hia " Dovecote and Aviary," quoting from Temminck, mistakes 

 thia variety for a nun, the name having mialed him. In France nuns 

 are atyled Pigeons CoqvAlles — shell-headed pigeons. 



In Germany, the jacobin ia chiefly known as the PeriicJcentaube, or wig 

 pigeon, of which there are several sub-varietiea. I have seen self- 

 coloured blacks, all coloura of bald-headed with feathered lega, also 

 most of the baldhead colours with both feathered legs and rose on 

 the forehead, like a priest pigeon. None of these equal our birds in 

 quality, and the last named, being evidently derived from a cross with 

 the aub-varieties of the trumpeter, have thick bodiea, and are looked 

 on in Germany, according to Priitz, as the cause of the true breed 

 having become "worsted in all its properties," as old Moore said, 

 when writing of the ruff. 



