BPaNOLre Re JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 
1. 

Pullets—1st premium, Daniel Allen, Galt, Ontario. 
2d premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York Mills, N. Y. 
8d premium, H. M. Thomas, Brooklin, Ontario. 
SILVER GRAY. 
Cocks—Ilst special premium, G. H. Warner, New York 
Malls, No Y. 
2d premium—no award. 
Hens—lst special premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York 
Mills, N. Y 
2d premium—no award. 
Cockerels—Ist special premium, R. H. Peck, Earlville, Ohio. 
2d premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York Mills, N. Y. 
8d premium—no award. 
Pullets—lst special premium, R. H. Peck, Earlville, Ohio. 
2d premium, Geo. H. Warner, New York Mills, N. Y. 
JupeEs—Philander Williams, Mass.; Seward Merry, 
N. Y.; F. J. Kinney, Mass. 
CLASS 4—HAMBURG. 
GOLDEN SPANGLED. 
Cocks—Ist special premium, E.S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
2d premium, E. 8. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
3d premium, W. H. Todd, Vermilion, Ohio. 
Hens—Ist special premium, EK. §. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
2d premium, G. B. Hayes, Buffalo, N. Y. 
3d premium, E. 8S. Ongley, Auburn, N Y. 
Cockerels—Ist special premium, H.§. Ongley, Auburn, N.Y. 
2d premium, E.S8. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
3d premium, E. 8. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
Pullets—Ist special premium, E. 8. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
2d premium, E. S. Ongley, Auburn, N. Y. 
3d premium, W. H. Todd, Vermilion, Ohio. 
Jupees—R. M. Griffith, Del.; P. W. Hudson, Conn.; 
M. H. Cryer, Ohio. 
(To be continued.) 
Htems Muteresting and Amusing. 
Works on Fancy Piazons.—The books that have been 
written on fancy pigeons have not been many. First, Moore’s 
‘¢ Columbarium,” published in 1785. This book, scarcely 
more than a pamphlet, is now very scarce and valuable ; it 
is excellent, and the foundation of all our correct knowledge. 
Then followed the ‘‘ Treatise on Domestic Pigeons,’’ pub- 
lished in 1765. This is Moore’s work enlarged, with illus- 
trations of each bird. There is an edition of this work on 
larger paper and superior engravings, a copy of which I 
have seen. Next, in about 1800, came the ‘‘ The Complete 
Pigeon Fancier,’’ by Daniel Girton, in substance like the 
two former, but enlarged. This book has illustrations. It 
may sometimes be bought for 1s. at a bookstall, being 
much more common than the two former. In 1802 was pub- 
lished a ‘‘ Treatise on the Almond Tumbler” only. This 
was the next book in value after Moore’s. It has a picture 
of a standard Almond of that date. Dixon’s ‘ Dovecote 
and Aviary ’’ saw the light in 1851. It is prettily written, 
but no authority on high fancy matters; it is now out of 
print; its substance, with illustrations by Harrison Weir, 
may be bought for 1s., under the name of ‘‘ Pigeons and 
Rabbits,’’ being one of Routledge’s ‘“‘ Books for the Coun- 
try.” Haton’s ‘‘ Treatise on the Almond Tumbler,”’ came 
out in 1851. It is now incorporated in his ‘Treatise on 
Pigeons,’’ and since the death of Mr. Eaton is to be bought 
of its able illustrator, Mr. Dean Wolstenholme, Elizabeth 
Cottage, Archway Road, Highgate, price 10s. The “ Pig- 
eon Book,” by Brent, with many illustrations, published at 
the office of this journal, is a practical and able work. Teg- 
etmeier’s ‘‘ Pigeons,’’ with colored illustrations, was sent out 
in 1868, price, I think, 10s. 6d. More recently the same 
author has published a shilling book on ‘‘ The Homing or 
Carrier Pigeon.’’— Wiltshire Rector. 




THE Zoological Garden at Fairmount Park in time will 
be an interesting place to visit. What are particularly 
needed there are native American animals. Lions, tigers, 
leopards, &¢., are familiar to every child, but not more than 
one in a thousand of our population has ever seen a grizzly 
bear, panther, buffalo, silver fox, and many other native 
animals that could be obtained at a comparatively small ex- 
pense. On Saturday last the first invoice was received in this 
city for the garden, and consisted of eighty-six specimens 
of wild animals and reptiles from the Rocky Mountains. 
HorsEs are a drug in Australia. In many of the old dis- 
tricts of New South Wales they run wild in thousands ; they 
are not worth looking after, and are very difficult to collect 
in any way; they eat the food of other profitable stock, and 
are only a scourge upon the pastures. Hence they have to 
be exterminated like vermin. In many parts of the coun- 
try they are shot by hired men, for so much per head, and 
are collected and destroyed systematically. They abound in 
wild mobs upon mountains of the most rugged and inaccessi- 
ble character, as well as upon the wildest plains of the in- 
terior ; always degenerating, becoming smaller, weaker, and 
wilder. 
A Harrrorp gentleman recently communicated the fol- 
lowing incident to a local paper: ‘‘ A yound dove, unable 
to fly but a short distance, dropped from its nest, which is in 
the eaves of a barn located just outside the city, and after 
several excursions of the parent bird from the nest to the 
ground, and vice versd,in which it showed by its actions that 
it desired the young one to follow, finally, seeing that the 
younger could not fly to the nest, walked along on the ground 
cooing to the younger to follow, until it reached the foot of 
a ladder which was standing against the barn, the upper end 
of which was but a short distance from the nest, and hop- 
ping from round to round actually succeeded in bringing the 
infant bird to its parent nest.” 
Tue following incident is said to have occurred recently 
in Knoxville, Tenn. A lady had a false tooth which had 
become loose, and recently, while out in the yard feeding her 
chickens, she sneezed very hard, when the tooth fell out and 
was at once swallowed by one of the chickens. The lady 
kept her eye on that same chicken, and, as soon as possible, 
effected a capture, when she felt of the craw until she dis- 
coyered 2 substance she took to be her tooth, and, taking a 
knife, the craw was opened at that place, the tooth taken 
out, and again closed with needle and thread, and the 
chicken released. The chicken is still living and well, 
though full of resolution never to again to swallow a tooth, 
while the lady sports a full set of teeth again. 
Tue Hartford Times tells a curious story of a flock of 
crows in that vacinity who recently lost their way in a fog. 
They lost their bearings at a point directly above the South 
Green, in Hartford. For a good while they hovered there, 
coming low down, circling and diving aimlessly about, like 
a blindfold person in ‘blind man’s buff,” and keeping up 
a hoarse cawing and general racket beyond description. It 
was plain enough that of the entire company each indi- 
vidual crow was not only puzzled and bothered, but highly 
indignant, and inclined to utter ‘‘cuss words ”’ in his frantic 
attempts to be heard above the general din, and tell the 
others which way to go. Once or twice the whole flock 
swept down to a distance of not more than one hundred feet 
above the street. Finally, after going around for many 
times they sailed away in a southerly direction, evidently 
having got some clue to the way out of the fog, or desper- 
ately resolved to go somewhere till they could see daylight. 
