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 I'he Jacobine Pigeon. 



Numb. XLin. 



THIS Pigeon is vulgarly called the yack^ is, if true, the 

 fmalleft of all Pigeons, and the fmaller ftill the better: 

 It has a Range of Feathers invefted quite over the hinder 

 part of the Head, which reaches down on each fide of the 

 Neck to the Shoulders of the Wings, and forms a kind 

 of Frier's Hood: from hence this Pigeon has its Name 

 Jacobine^ becaufe the Fathers of that Order all wear Hoods 

 to cover their bald Crowns j hence the upper part of this 

 Range is called the Hood j and the more compaA thefe Fea- 

 thers are, and the clofer to the Head, fo much the more 

 this Bird is efteemed. The lower part of this Range of 

 Feathers is called by us the Chain, but by the Dutch it is 

 called the Cravat; the Feathers of this Chain ought to be 

 long and clofe, fo that if you ftrain the Neck a little, by 

 talcing hold of the Bill, the two fides will lap over each 

 other in fome of the beft; but there are very few now to be 

 found in Kngland compleat. The jfacohine ought to have a 

 very Ihort Bill, the fhorter the better, and a clean pearl Eye, 

 as for their Colours there are reds, yellows, blews, blacks 

 and mottles; but be the Colours what they will, they ought 

 to have a clean white Head, white Feet and white Tail. 

 Of thefe Pigeons fome are feather legg'd and footed, others 

 are not, and both forts are equally eileem'd, according to 

 the various Inclination of different Fancies. 



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