January 30.] 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Madame Comerson ; crimson ; fine form. 
Nazar; small white, tipped with roso; beautiful. 
Nelson ; rosy carmine, orange centre. 
Phidias (new - ); rosy carmine, light centre ; very fine. 
Pearl; pearly white. 
Pilot ; fine large rose. 
Queen of England ; blush-white; splendid large show flower. 
Rosed’Amour; pale peach ; fine. 
Sulphurcitm pallidum; sulphur and yellow; Anemone- 
flowered. 
Trilly ; vennillion red. 
Vesta (new); bronzy rose. 
VARIETIES LET OUT IN 1850. 
Cloth of Gold; golden yellow ; extra large and fine. 
Glitch; bright gold; Anemone-fiowered. 
Jenny Lind ; sulphur white, yellow centre. 
Lady Tafourd ; large pure white; very delicate and pretty. 
Lavinia; rosy blush. 
Sydenham ; carmine red. 
Rabelais; carmine and yellow; incurved. 
The Warden; deep orange. 
POMPONS- VARIETIES OP THE CHUSAN DAISY-FLOWEr.ED 
CHRYSANTHEMUMS. 
La Laponne ; white, tinted with lilac ; very pretty. 
Le Nain Behe ; pale rosy lilac; very double ; the size of a 
daisy. 
D'Or; bright golden yellow ; very fine. 
Bijou ; lilac ; very pretty. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE DOVE-COT PIGEONS. 
SIXTH RACE. 
(Continued from page 73.) 
The Lisle Pigeon : Columha insulensis. —This superb 
race of pigeons belongs to the division of Pouters, since like 
the preceding, they have the power of swelling their throat, 
though not to so great a degree. The swelling in the 
Pouters always has a spherical form, whereas in these it 
takes the oval form of a long pear, the narrowest part of 
which is towards the breast, and the largest to the under 
part of the beak. These pigeons have derived their name 
from the city of Lisle, where they are as much esteemed as 
common. Their head is small, and the beak long and thin ; 
they are not subject to the same complaint in the crop as 
the Pouters. 
yans .—It is of an elegant and graceful form ; the body placed 
almost vertically on its legs, so that the head is in a line 
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with the feet; the head is small; it has no filament round 
the eye; and the iris black; the feet are shod, the middle 
claw only is covered with feathers—a character being met with 
in this variety alone; wings long and crossed; plumage blue, 
with black stripes, or all white, silvery white, slatish coloured, 
or white with wings streaked with pearl grey. In this last 
colour, which is the most rare, and, therefore, the most 
esteemed, some have the wing marked with brown spots, 
like the Ermine; others are dotted with grey, or a purplish 
colour. This bird, whose flight is rapid, is very fruitful; 
and we cannot too highly recommend it to those amateurs 
wdio like to combine utility with beauty. 
43. The Clapping Lisle Pigeon : Columha insulans cre¬ 
pitans.— This pigeon makes with its wings, when it begins to i 
fly, a noise resembling a clapper, from which it derives its 
name. M. Yieiltot only considered it as a variety of the 
Tumbler pigeon, with which in fact it has a great analog)'; j 
but it swells its throat in a visible manner, which the other ! 
never does. The wings are long, and crossed over the tail; 
it has a filament round the eyes ; the feet are shod and ' 
spurred ; its plumage is white or chamois-coloured, or blue 
shouldered with white, that is, having the upper part of the 
wing white. It is very productive, which causes it to be 
much sought after. 
(To he continued.) 
THE DOMESTIC PIGEON. 
(Continued from page 358 of vol. iv.) 
on the young pigeon. 
At the age of six weeks, or two months, young pigeons 
have all their feathers and the greater part of their colours. 
It is then that amateurs ascertain their real value, and it is ! 
also the time when the merchants, anxious to sell them, 
dress them up to deceive the honest purchaser. 
As soon as young pigeons can feed themselves, the 
breeders take them from the dove-house, to prevent their i 
interrupting their parents and the new brood. If they are [ 
left with them, they continue to follow them sometime after j 
they are capable of flying; will annoy them even in the j 
nest, from which the female especially, has not the courage j 
to drive them ; and soil or break the eggs, or at least j 
impede the incubation. They may be disposed of in the in- I 
terior breeding-cage, or in any cages that can easily be 
cleaned, provided they are sufficiently large, and it is in these 
cages that we can the soonest judge of then' sex. 
From the age of tlrree or four months the small species 
begin to show their sex, by the first amorous signs. It is a 
cooing they begin to make, accompanying it with some 
salutations when they approach a female. The large species 
are more backward, and it is not till near five or six months 
that they exhibit such signs. At this age all species may he 
coupled. 
The two little ones of a brood are very commonly destined 
by nature to form a couple, that is to say, that they are 
generally male and female; but this is not an infallible rule ; 
and when they are of the same sex it is very difficult to 
recognise them, because in both eases one is always larger 
than the other. 11 is extremely difficult to distinguish the 
sex of a pigeon, whatever the age may be. “VVe may acquire 
some knowledge by great experience, but never sufficiently 
to be able to judge with certainty. Some amateurs, how¬ 
ever, have even boasted of being able to tell the sex of a 
pigeon before it is born, that is to say, as soon as the egg is 
laid; they pretend that in looking through it, if the spot or 
gprm is placed a little way from the end, the bird will he a 
female, but if on the contrary the spot is very near the end, | 
it will be a male. It is unnecessary for us to say that this 
opinion requires to be confirmed by careful experience, 
which is very difficult, because the pigeon is in the habit of 
moving its eggs every day while sitting. It would be ab¬ 
solutely necessary to mark them, and then the moment they 
are hatched to take away the shells, and distinguish the 
little ones by some means, which appear to us much more 
difficult to find. 
Young pigeons are still more embarrassing than the old, 
when we seek to recognise their sex, because it is not be¬ 
trayed by any amatory sign. However, the males generally 
have a larger head and stronger beak. In the striped j 
