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Fancy Pigeons. 



surrounded by a thin, smooth wattle, o£ about five-eighths of an inch 

 diameter in matured birds. The colours of those I saw were black or 

 blue pied, the white predominating, some being nearly all white. The 

 black and blue patches were disposed without any regularity, no two 

 birds being exactly alike. This pigeon, though a sub-variety of the 

 carrier, has assumed a distinct type of its own, and bears a highly-bred 

 look ; and I imagine it is a bird capable of flying long distances. 



