Index. 39 1 
PAGE 
PAGE 
Pouter, Yellow-pied 
. 1 13 
Show, Pigeons at a ... . . 
. 48 
Priests 
Sick-pens in the Loft ...... 
26 
Purging, Means of . 
• 373 
Simultaneous Hatching, To Secure. 
- 38 
Size, Importance of ..... 
38 
Skull of the Antwerp ..... 
. 261 
Q. 
,, Barb ...... 
231 
,, Carrier ..... 
• 65 
Quaker, A “Minister” and Pigeon Fancier . 
5 
,, Dragoon ..... 
200, 212 
„ Owl 
• 3°3 
,, Tumbler ..... 
145 
R. 
,, Turbit ..... 
. 289 
Rats in the Pigeon-loft 
• 25 
Small-pox ........ 
90 
Rearing Young Pigeons 
39 
Smerle, The ....... 
. 268 
Rollers, Birmingham 
. 185 
Societies, Metropolitan Pigeon, and their History 
384 
Roman Runts 
366 
Soft Meat for the Young .... 
• 39 
Roup 
• 378 
,, ,, Artificial ...... 
40 
Runt, The . 
367 
Southey on Pigeons ..... 
. I I 
,, Judging. 
- - 368 
Southwark Columbarian Club .... 
• 385 
Spanish Runt, The ..... 
- 366 
Spitalfields’ Dormer ...... 
24 
S. 
Splashed Pouters ...... 
. 1 15 
Splashes ........ 
149 
Salt and Salt cat . 
. 
• 33 
Spots ........ 
• 354 
Satinette Varieties, The 
. 
3 12 
Spouts, Treatment of . 
86 
,, ,, Breeding .... 
• 3 i 3 
Starlings ....... 
Scale of Points in Judging Almonds 
168 
Starved Pigeons, Treatment of . 
381 
99 99 99 
„ Young 
. . 169 
Statistics of Homing Pigeons in Belgium 
- 283 
}> 99 >» 
Archangels 
365 
Stray Pigeons ....... 
37 i 
9 9 99 99 
Baldheads and Beards 
. 178 
Suabians ....... 
■ 346 
99 99 99 
Barbs . 
. 242 
Swallows ........ 
99 99 99 
Carriers . 
- i74 
Swifts ........ 
99 99 99 
Dragoons . 
. 224 
Swiss, or Crescent ...... 
352 
99 99 99 
Fantails . 
• 332 
99 99 99 
Jacobins . 
257 
99 99 99 
Magpies . 
• • 358 
99 99 99 
Mottles 
171 
99 9 9 99 
Nuns 
• 3 62 
99 99 99 
Owls . . . . 
307 
Tegetmeier, Mr., on the Lotait, or Lowtan . 
. 196 
99 99 99 
Pouters . 
• 134 
,, — his Pigmy Pouters . 
• I3 6 
99 99 99 
Runts 
368 
Tennyson on Pigeons ...... 
9 
99 99 99 
Trumpeters 
• 336 
Tom Hood ,, ..... 
9 
99 99 99 
Turbits 
298 
Toys, German ....... 
345 
Scandaroons 
. 340 
,, Definition of . 
Scotch Fantail, The . 
323, 325. 33° 
Training Homing Pigeons ..... 
. 278 
Scripture References to Pigeons 
2 
,, Pouters ...... 
. 126, 130 
Separating Sexes after Breeding . 
130 
Transmission of Messages ..... 
288 
Separation of Sexes 
. 27 
“ Treatise on the Almond Tumbler ” 
11, 156 
Settling in Nests 
37 
,, The, on Domestic Pigeons, 1765 
• IO 
Shakespeare on Pigeons 
7 
Trumpeters ....... 
• 333 
Shields . 
. 
352 
„ Judging 
336 
Shifting 
. 40 
Tumbler, Making the Head of a 
• 157 
Short-faced Baldheads 
. 172 
,, The Almond ..... 
• 12, 137 
,, Beards . 
• 177 
,, Common and Flying 
. 184 
,, Tumblers 

137, 172 
,, Diseases 
. 180 
,, ,, Diseases of 
. . 180 
,, Exhibition ..... 
. . 178 
,, ,, Exhibiting . . . . 
178 
,, Mottled and Whole-feathered 
163, 168 
