PIGEONS. 



" JacoUnes," says Willugliby, " are called by the Low 

 Dutch cappers, because, on the hinder part of the head, or 

 nape of the neck, certain feathers reflected upwards encompass 

 the head behind, ahnost after the fashion of a monk's hood, 

 when he puts it back to uncover his head. These are called 

 Cyprus pigeons by Aldrovandus, and some of them are rough- 

 footed. Aldrovandus hath set forth three or four either species 

 or accidental varieties of this kind. Their bill is short; the 

 irides of their eyes of a pearl-colour, and the head in all 

 white." They are variously coloured : white and blue, and white 



and black, and mottled. Whatever 

 colour they may be, however, to 

 be considered handsome, they 

 should have a white head, a white 

 tail, and white flight-feathers. 

 The head^ should be very small, 

 and the beak short and spindled. 

 The feet of some Jacobites are 

 ,.„„o™ ™„™„„c feathered to the toes, while those 



JACOBIN PIGEONS. „ ,, , .V- i 



of others are bare ; this, however, 

 is of little consequence. 



A good authority says, " The ruff is a pigeon very much 

 like the Jacobite, and one which is often sold for it; but the 

 true ruff is altogether a larger bird. It has a larger head and 

 longer beak ; the chain of feathers does not flow down so near 

 to its shoulders, but it is longer, and not so thick. The capu- 

 chin may be considered as merely a variety of the same breed. 

 The capuchin is larger than the jacobite, and has a longer 

 beak; it has a ruff, or hood, but the feathers do not come 

 down in the same maimer, and form a chain, as in the other 

 varieties." 



THE TUEBIT. 



The tnrbit in shape much resembles the jacobite ; but it has 

 not the head-covering that distinguishes the latter bu-d. It is 

 not, however, without finery, and may boast of a finely -friUed 

 shirt-front. This is occasioned by the breast-feather leanirig 

 contraxy ways and standing straight out. 



Turbits are classed according to the colour of their shoulders, 

 much in the same way as nuns are from the colour of their 

 heads. There is the blue and blue and yellow shouldered 

 turbit. Besides these, there are birds of this species all of 



