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Fancy Pigeons. 



in such perfection as when first imported. The interesting account 

 of the breed makes one wish to know more about it, and especially 

 aa to whence it came. I have seen many varieties and types of fancy 

 pigeons in India, but none of the frilled race, except such as were 

 imported from Europe. There is nothing to connect the re-appear- 

 ance of the whiskered owl in Paris with the Tilsit and Memel birds. The 

 Paris birds may have been a fresh importation, and the name given 

 them — Chinese pigeons — may not be a mere fanciful one. However good 

 the first arrivals were — and if better than such as I have seen, they must 

 have been very choice birds — there doubtless exists in the hands of 

 fanciers somewhere a race of most extraordinary pigeons, compared to 

 which all other races we know of, are much inferior in jabut or friU. 



