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THE PRACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. 



the experiment of crossing Barbs with Can-iers, in the hope 

 of improving this point ; but the model of the two birds is 

 so totally different that no good has ever been traced to such 

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



Babbs. 



head narrow, but the type of the eye-wattle is thin ; whilst 

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

 in both wattle and skull. 



This is, no doubt, one of the most ancient varieties of pigeons. 

 Shakespeare alludes in .4* You Like It (Act iv., Scene 2) to a 

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

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



