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THE PRACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. 



colour and marking, and next to these heavy 



points are 

 leg-feather. 



Priests resemble Swallows in shell-crest and muffed legs, 

 but have an additional tuft or crest over the nose, thus marking 

 a kind of transition between the Swallow and the more heavily- 

 furnished Trumpeter. The nasal tuft is found both rose-shaped 

 and parted. The upper mandible is light, the lower dark ; 



SWALIOWS. 



nasal tuft and top of head white to the crest, which is coloured ; 

 crest and all else coloured, except v>hite mng-hars ; rarely there 

 is also a white tail-band, which is an additional point of value. 

 In blues the white bars are edged with black. The coloui'S are 

 blue, black, red, and yellow. 



Brunswicks are like Priests, with the sole difference that the 

 white on the head extends over the shell-crest and the flights 

 are white. 



Letz pigeons are of the same class, but the nasal tuft 

 becomes a well-developed " rose," and the legs are more 

 heavily feathered and vulture-hocked : in all these points 

 making a still closer approach to the Trumpeter, a cross of 



