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THE PRACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. 



points are colour and marking, and noxt to tliese heavy 

 leg-feather. 



Priests resemble Swallows in shell-crest and muffed legs, 

 bvit 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 ; 



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

 crest and all else coloured, except v>Mte vnng-hars ; rarely there 

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

 In blues the white bars are edged with black. The colours are 

 blue, black, red, and yellow. 



Bnmsv:ichs are like Priests, with the sole difference that the 

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

 ai'e white. 



Lc'tz 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 ])oints 

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



