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THE PEACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. 



Capuchins are generally black, -with white tails, clean- 

 legged, with a Tumbler head and pearl eyes. Their chai-ac- 

 teristic is a close-fitting hood, like that of the Jacobin, but 

 without chain below it. Some people have described this as a 

 shell-crest, but it does not stand up at all like the crest of a 

 _^ Nun, lying down as 



close as possible. The 

 carriage is bold and 

 upright. There are 

 also blue and black 

 Capuchins. They are 

 bred in Asia Minor. 



Damascenes have 

 a round Owl - like 

 head, with a short 

 down - faced beak. 

 The eye (orange) is 

 surrounded by a pe- 

 culiar plum-coloured 

 cere or eyelash. The 

 most peculiar point 

 aboutthem, however, 

 is the colour, which 

 is of a striking mealy 

 or frosted, slightly blue white, such as is called French white, as 

 if dusted with faintly blue white flour. The bars on wings and 

 tail are jet black. The under-flue of the feather is dark, the 

 beak and nails being also dark. The peculiarity in feather 

 is of the same kind as the "powder" of English Owls, and 

 suggests whether the "powdered blues" may not have been 

 so obtained, especially when we consider the resemblance in 

 heads. The Ice pigeons also have a frosted appearance of the 

 same kind. 



Damascene. 



