98 THE PRACTICAL PTOEON KEEPER. 



tl-e experiment of crossing Barlis witli Carriers, in the liope 

 of improving tliis point ; but the model of tlie two hirds is 

 so totally different that no good lias cxev been traced to such 

 a cross. It has been forgotten that not only is a Carrier 



Barbs. 



Iiead narrow, but the type of the eye-wattle is tJiin ; whilst 

 we want in a Barb to encourage width, as much as possible, 

 in both wattle and skull. 



Tliis is, no doulit, one of the most ancient varieties of pigeons. 

 Shakespeare alludes in As You Like It (Act iv.. Scene 2) to a 

 "Barbary" piigeon, which there is not the slightest doubt is 

 the same as tliat before us; and it seems likely tliat Moore 



