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THE PRACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. 



tlie experiment of crossing Barbs with Carriers, in the hope 

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

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

 a ci'oss. It has been forgotten that not only is a Carrier 



head narrow, but the type of tlie eye-wattle is tliin ; 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 As 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 



