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PIGEONS. 
although the surface of its feathers is of a cream-color, the part 
next the body, the flue feathers, and even the skin, are of a dark 
sooty tint; it is about the size of a “ turbit,” but it has in place 
of a frill, a fine gullet, with a seam of beautiful feathers; its 
head is thick and short, and its eyes orange-color, surrounded 
by a small, naked circle of black flesh; it has a little black 
wattle on its beak, which is short and stout, and somewhat 
resembles that of a bulfinch. 
THE BARB. 
This variety was originally brought from Barbary. In size, 
it is somewhat larger than the Jacobin; it has a short, thick 
beak, a small wattle, and a circle of thick, naked, mcrusted 
flesh round its eyes; the wider this circle of flesh spreads round 
the eye, and the more brilliant its color, the more the bird is 
prized; the circle is narrow, at first, and is not fully developed 
until the bird is three or four years old. 
The plumage of the Barb is usually dun or black; but there 
are pied birds of both colors; these last are held in little esti¬ 
mation, as they are supposed to be only half bred; when the 
pinion feathers are dark, the irides of its eyes are pearl color; 
but when the pinions are white, the irides are red. Some of 
these birds are ornamented with a tuft of feathers rising from 
the back part of the crown of the head. 
THE TURBIT. 
This variety is somewhat larger than the Jacobin. Its head 
^ is round, and beak short; from the breast grows a tuft of fea- 
