CONCLUSION. 



A NBW book on fancy pigeons has been lately publialied in America, a 

 copy of which has been kindly sent to me by Mrs. E. S. Starr, who 

 edits the Fanciers' Journal, of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is 

 entitled, " The International Standard of Excellence for Judging 

 Pigeons, with hints to breeders and a chapter on diseases, compiled and 

 illustrated by J. W. Ludlow, president of the Birmingham Columbarian 

 Society. Scale of points and revision by Wm. Simpson jnnr., president 

 of the National Columbarian Society, New York, 1879." This is a very 

 handsomely got up octavo book of 103 pp., embellished with eight 

 full-page coloured lithographs, each containing the figures of several 

 fancy pigeons, in compartments. The " general points of excellence 

 applicable to each sort" are detailed, and a scale of points, with 

 their numerical value, added ; but no discursive writing, on any of the 

 varieties treated of, is indulged in. In addition to the coloured plates 

 there are various woodcuts throughout the work. 



M. La Perre de Eoo has lately published, in Dutch, a book in octavo 

 on homing pigeons entitled " De Postduif," which is uniform with his 

 French work, "La Pigeon Voyageur, " already referred to. It dates from 

 Thielt, in 1879, is Ulnstrated with engravings, and contains 180 pp., 

 besides an appendix describing, with illustrations, certain rare birds and 

 beasts in the Jardin D'Acclimatation of Paris. Other works by this 

 author, which he has very kindly presented me with, and which are, for 

 the most part, incorporated with the above, are ; — 



" La Poste par pigeons voyageurs, pendant le Siege de Paris. Extrait 

 du Bulletin de la Soci(5te d'AccUmatation (No. d'Octobre, 1872)," 52 pp. 

 In this pamphlet, which is now very rare, is a souvenir of the Siege of 

 Paris — a pellioule, about liin. by 2in., on which is photographed a great 



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