PIGMY POUTERS. 



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surprised, on looking s^ his Pouters, how it was possible he 

 could have reduced the English Pouters down to such little 

 Lilliputians, or rmdtv/m in pa/rvo Pouter, possessing in an 

 elegant degree all the properties of the English Pouter." Tlie 

 breed was, however, subsequently lost ; and to Mr. Tegetmeier 

 chiefly belongs the credit of reviving it, which we believe he 

 did by working upon the small varieties of pouting pigeons pro- 



ISABEL, 



PlOMT PODTEa. 



duced by the German fanciers. These are numerous, and nearly 

 all possess fair crops, but nearly all are destitute of limb pro- 

 perties : the legs being generally short, and either bare or 

 heavily feathered and hocked, the latter type being known as 

 Isabels. The latter have often pretty " Toy " markings, stich 

 as the white bars shown in the illustration, but are generally 

 low in carriage. By matching the two extremes of leg-feather 

 together a correct standard in that respect was easily at 

 command ; but length of limb and upright carriage presented 

 great difficulty, and much more did the orthodox English 

 pied marking, which was unknown to the German birds. By 



