PLATE V. 
The Jack, or Jacobine. 
T'hIS Pidgeon is efteemed the moft beautiful of the Dove kind, but differs very much in colour. 
The Fanciers are fo exaft as to hold them of little value, if they diftinguilh any falfe marks in them, 
as the term is ; — that is, if the colour be not perfeftly correfpondent, and the hood from the head 
to the breaft exaftly regular. The right colour is obtained by matching male and female from time 
to time, until they arrive to what is called a true marked pidgeon ; and the breeders then efteem 
them valuable, and can have their own price. They lay two eggs ; the female fits all night, and 
about eleven o'clock in the morning (he comes oflF to feed, and returns not before the evening, when 
{he refumes, and the male quits the neft. They breed, for the moft part, during all the year ; and, 
particularly, if they are kept in a room which is not cold in the winter. Hence it is always endea- 
voured to give them the utmoft advantage of the fun at that feafon. 
