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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[July 3 
The Polypus is an excrescence of flesh, which accidently 
comos in the throat, grows quickly and suffocates the pigeon. 
As soon as it begins to appear, it must be cut off with a pair of 
fine pointed scissors, and its root burnt with caustic. The 
bird should afterwards he dieted, that is to say, kept entirely 
on barley; a few grains of salt should occasionally be put 
into its beak. If the excrescence re-appears, we may know 
that the operation has been badly done, and must repeat it; 
but if it appears again the third time, the bird is lost, 
Diabrhcea, or scouring, is almost always the consequence 
of unwholesome food. If it proceeds from heated grain, 
which is very rare, but also more dangerous, the bird must 
have nothing but pure barley; but should it proceed, on the 
contrary, from tares, or wheat of a bad quality, &e., the 
animal may easily be cured by giving it good grain. If the 
scouring has become chronical and stubborn, we must give 
it a little salt, and let it drink nothing but water with a 
little alum in it, {To be Continued.) 
DESCRIPTIONS OF PIGEONS. 
NINTH RACE. 
{Continued from pkge 341.) 
Wautf.d Pigeon {Colombo, tuberculosa ).—The birds of 
this race may be known at the first glance by their long and 
hooked beak, the very large lump on their waited nostrils, 
in the shape of a small mushroom, by the large red fleshy 
ribbon which they have round the eye, by their large size, 
and by the extraordinary length of their throat and feet. 
The greater part of this race are extremely fruitful, but 
they are naturally wild, untractable, and never become 
thoroughly tame. However cautiously any one enters the 
dovecote, they all fly out in the greatest confusion, break 
their eggs, or forsake their nests, and do not return to it 
again until the indiscreet observer has retired. 
The Warted Pigeon with the large Mushroom 
{Colombo tuberculosa fimgosa), has a mushroom, or very 
large tubercle, on the beak; a large red ribbon round the 
eyes, forming, when the bird is old, a sort of second eyelid, 
fleshy and reddish, which falls over its eyes, and prevents 
its seeing. These ribbons are sometimes so large that they 
join on the top of the head, the beak is curved and hooked, 
and the eye black. This bird is heavy, high on its legs, 
large and short in the body; the neck is thin and long, the 
wings short, and feet naked; its breast-bone is always of a 
flame-colour. It has several sub-varieties, with a plumage 
black, red, black and white, dun colour, &c. All these 
produce but little, and with difficulty; consequently it has 
become very rare, and is merely preserved as an object of 
curiosity. 
The Meved Warted Pigeon (Colombo tuberculosa olo- 
rina) is known in many of the provinces of France by the 
name of the Swan Pigeon, from whence its Latin name. 
It differs from the preceding variety in having a smaller 
ribbon round the eyes, the tubercles of the nostrils not so 
large, and being smaller in size. It also has a red bi'east- 
bone; its plumage is generally inclined to white, or white 
and black 
Black-tailed Mixed Warted Pigeon {Colombo tobereulosa 
olorina nigriennda ), very nearly resembling the preceding, but 
always having a black tail, of a deeper colour near the end. 
Batavian Warted Pigeon (Colombo tuberculosa Maximo). 
Some authors call this “ the great Batavian," because they 
were first brought from Batavia. They also think that this 
ought to be considered as the origin of the Dove cote Pigeon, 
instead of the stock dove. It is larger than the preceding 
species of this race; thick tubercles, eyelids very fleshy, 
although less so than in the others, pearl eye, that is 
with a whitish iris; very long beak, measuring nearly 
18 lines in length; neck extremely long, body large and 
short, very high on its legs, feet of a blood red, long enough 
to extend a good inch beyond the tail when stretched out. 
Its stop is heavy, and its flight laborious, in consequence of 
the shortness of its wings, which, moreover, are scarcely 
covered with feathers, and the prominent bones of the 
shoulders are left apparently nearly naked. This fine 
species produces little, and is not much sought after at the 
present day by amateurs. The cause of their being so little | 
cared for may, no doubt, be attributed to their ungraceful | 
forms, and the havoc they can make in the dovecotes by 
destroying the young ones belonging to the other birds, 
with their formidable beak. This bird is the largest of all 
the pigeons, one of them being known tall enough to drink 
out of a common pail without trouble. ( See cut.) 
We have seen, at a German amateur’s, a pigeon resem¬ 
bling in all respects the “Batavian,” except in having no 
mushroom on the beak or round the eyes. 
White-headed Warted Pigeon (Colombo tuberculosa 
capitata). —Resembling the preceding, but more esteemed 
in consequence of its plumage, the lower part of which is 
the colour of tobacco, and its brown neck surmounted by a 
white head. 
Small Batavian Warted Pigeon {Colombo tuberculosa 
batava minima). —•Generally resembles the large Batavian, 
differing from it in being smaller and more productive 
Silky Batavian Warted Pigeon (Colombo tuberculosa 
setacea batava). —A variety as rare as singular. It resembles 
the preceding in its figure and chief points, but the beards 
of its feathers are long, and thick, and do not adhere toge¬ 
ther, which deprives it of the faculty of flying. This bird, i 
also, which has not been brought into the market, will I 
doubtless never be multiplied, except by amateurs, who 
merely consider it a simple object of curiosity. 
Cropped Warted Pigeon {Colombo tuberculosa curtata ).— | 
Large in the body; less mushroom than the preceding; the 
ribbons round the eyes not so large ; beak shorter than that 
of the large Batavian, never exceeding fourteen lines; eye 
pearled ; high on its legs ; feet surpassing the length of its ; 
tail; its plumage is commonly black and white. This pretty 
bird is very productive, and deserves to be more generally bred. 
Grey-headed Warted Pigeon {Colombo tuberculosa 
cinerea capitata ).— It has a long beak, surmounted with a 
mushroom ; the eye is pearled, and fleshy ; the head stout, 
and the neck long and thin; the body large, short, high on 
the legs. Its head is of a greyish white, aiid the rest of its 
plumage black. This bird produces abundantly, but is 
excessively wild. 
THE SPOT IN PELARGONIUMS. 
For some few years past the spot on Pelargoniums has 
been so great a pest among gardeners, that it appears as if 
nothing could eradicate it; but experience has proved that 
even this is to be done. A few months since we had a 
Pelargonium of a delicate fancy variety so infested with 
the spot that we thought it useless, for upon examining the 
young leaves we found them covered with the spot in its 
