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TURKISH OR JIAWMET PIGEON. 
Columba Turcica. 
PLATE XVI. 
Columba Turcica vulgaris. — Pigeon Turc ordinaire, Mo~ 
nog. des Pig. Domest. p. 188.— Carrier Pigeon. 
In England, the pigeon generally knowTi by the 
name of the CaiTier, appears to belong to this race, 
as it possesses all the characteristics of the Columba 
Turcica of authors, viz. great size, a hill tuberculatcd 
at the base, and the eyes surrounded with a broad 
circle of naked red skin, elevated tarsi, and wings 
reaching nearly to the end of the tail. This name, 
however, according to the authors of the “ Mono- 
graphie des Pigeons Domestiques,” is improperly ap- 
plied, and ought to be appropriated to a very differ- 
ent variety, which they designate in their interest- 
ing work as the Columba tabellaria, or race of “ Pi- 
geons volans.” This, in contradistinction to the 
Turkish variety, is of small size, without tuberculat- 
ed nostrils, and the circle around the eye small and 
narrow. In point of fecundity and productiveness, 
it surpasses any other race, and shews a still greater 
attachment to the place of its birth, a fact in proof 
