CONTENTS. 



Chapter 



I. The Structure and General Character of Pigeons 



II. The Bock Dote ..... 



III. The Origin of the Varieties of Pigeons 



IV. Dote Cotes and Pigeon Lofts 

 V. The English Pouter .... 



VI. Foreign Pouters ; Isabels, Brunnen or Pigmy Pouters 



VII. The English Carrier .... 



VIII. The Dragon ..... 



IS. Homing Birds, or Les Pigeons Voyageurs— Axtwerps— Smerles. 



X. The Common Tumbler 



XI. The Short-faced Tumbler 



XII. The Lowtan or Ground Tumblers of India. — House Tumblers 



XIII. The Barb 



XIV. The Owl . 

 XV. The Turbit 



XVI. The Jacobine 



XVII. The Fantail 



XVIII. The Trumpeter and the Laugher 



XIX. Nuns, Helmets, and Spots 



XX. The Archangel 



XXI. German Toys — Magpies, Suaeians, Priests 



XXII. The Finnikin, Smiter, and Turner 



XXIII. The Lace, or Silky, and Frillback Pigeons 



XXIV. The Eunt. .... 

 XXV. The Laws relating to Pigeons . 



XXVI. The Diseases of Pigeons . 



&c. 



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3 



15 



25 



3S 



49 



71 



74 



80 



82 



102 



110 



127 



133 



139 



142 



145 



150 



157 



161 



167 



170 



175 



177 



179 



183 



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COLOUEED EXGBAVIXGS. 



The Pouter 



Frontispiece. 



Isabels and Austrian Pouters 



to face page 71 



Black Carreer 



75 



Dragons and Archangels 



SI 



Antwerps and Suabiaxs 



S9 



Beards and Balpheads 



111 



Black Mottled Tumblers 



113 



Almond Tumblers . 



121 



Blue Owls and Barbs 



137 



Tup.bits and Jacobins 



145 



Frillbacks and Fantaxls. 



151 



Letz and Trumpeters 



157 



Nuns and Swallows. 



161 



Blue Brunswicks and Black Peh 



-Sts ,, 172 



Magpies and Ice Pigeons 



174 



Bunts 



., 170 



ENGEAVINGS OX YTOOD. 



Page 

 4 

 7 

 9 



Bones and Feathers of the Wing of Pigeon 



Sternum and Muscles of the YTing 



Digestite Organs ..... 



Area for Loft, and Bolting Vires . 41 and 42 



Resting Boxes and Nest Pans . 43, 44, and 4S 



Mating Cage 46 



Pouter 59 



Head of Carrier . . . . . .74 



Pigeon Eace 98 



Heads of Beard and Bald-head Tumblers, 111, 112 

 Head of Barb ...... 133 



Head of Owl 139 



Head of Jacobine 145 



Diagrams of Fantail . . 150, 154, and 155 



Head of Helmet 164 



Feather Louse (Lipeums Baculus) . .157 



