INDIAN FANCY PIGEONS. 



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to get good reds and yellows. It seems, upon the whole, likely 

 that these birds were the original stock of our present English 

 Cai'riers. 



Of Indian pigeons, that best known is generally called by 

 the name of the Lahore. Of these many specimens have 

 reached England, all of one type. As thus imported in Indian 



Lahoax:. 



vessels, the Lahore is a largish pigeon of plump make, and 

 rather heavy -looking, with rather short, clean legs. The head 

 is of the common type, with a rather thick beak, the eye having 

 round it a small red cere. The points are in the marking, 

 which is peculiar and striking, especially as the birds seen so 

 far have been black. The top of the head dowii to the eye is 

 black, and the upper mandible of the beak dark also, while the 

 under mandible is light. The black runs over the eye, and 

 comes down and round the back of the neck to half-way round, 

 and over the back to the taU-coverts ; the wings are also 

 biack, all else white. Thus the neck when looked at from 



