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ought by no means to go behind the neck, for then it is said 
to be ring-headed. 
2. He ought to have a bib or round patch of the same 
color with which he is pied coming down from under his 
chop, and falling upon the chap, which makes it the shape 
of a half-moon ; but if this bib be wanting, he is said to be 
swallow-throated. 
3. His head, neck, and back ought to be of one uniform 
color, and the tail the same; and if the pigeon be Blue-pied, 
he ought to have two bars or streaks of black across the 
lower part of both wings ; but if these happen to be of a 
brown color, he is said to be kite-barred, which is not so 
valuable. 
4. The shoulder or pinion of the wing ought to be mottled 
with white, lying round in the shape of a rose ; this is called 
a rose-pinion, and is reckoned the best, though but very few 
arise to be complete in this property ; but if the pinion runs 
with a large patch of white to the outer edge of the wing, 
he is said to be lawn-sleeved. 
5. His thighs ought to be clean white, though sometimes 
the joints of the knees will be edged round with another 
color, but let it fall here, or on any other part of the thigh, 
he is foul-thighed. 
6. The nine flight feathers of the wing ought to be white, 
otherwise he is said to be foul-flighted; and if only the 
external feather of the wing be of the color of the body, it 
is called sword-flighted or sworded. 
Besides the five properties before mentioned, there is 
another, which, though not generally allowed, will be found 
to be one of the best, — I mean the carriage, under which I 
comprise the following heads : 
1. The crop ought to be so far filled with wind as to show 
its full extent, without buffling or being slack- winded, which 
are both esteemed very great faults. The pigeon that buf- 
fles , fills his crop so full of wind that it is thereby strained 
in such a manner that he is ready to fall backwards, because 
he can’t readily discharge the confined air which renders 
him uneasy and unwieldly ; and man}' a good thing has, by 
this means, either fallen into the street, or become a prey to 
those fatal enemies of the Fancy, — the cats. The other 
extreme is being slack-winded, so that he shows little or no 
crop, and appears not much better than an ill-shaped Bunt. 
2. The second beauty in carriage is their playing upright, 
with a fine tail, well-spread like a fan, without scraping the 
ground therewith, or tucking it between their legs; neither 
should they set up the feathers on their rump when they 
play, which is called rumping. 
3. The last beauty of carriage in a Pouter is to stand close 
with his legs, without straddling, and keep the shoulders of 
his wing tight down to his body, and when he moves, to trip 
beautifully with his feet, almost upon his toes, without jump- 
ing, which is the quality of an Uploper. 
A Pouter that would answer all these properties might be 
said to be perfect; but as absolute perfection is incompatible 
with anything in this world, that pigeon that makes the 
nearest advances towards them is certainly the best. 
Some have answered them so well, that I have known 
eight guineas refused for a single pigeon of this breed. 
COLUMBA GUTTUROSA LUTETIH3 vel PARI- 
SIORUM. 
The Parisian Pouter. 
This pigeon was originally bred at Paris, and from thence 
brought to Brussels, whence it was transmitted to us. It 
has all the nature of a Pouter, but is generally long-cropped, 
and not very large; it is short-bodied, short-legged, and 
thick in the girt. What is chiefly admired in this bird is 
its feather, which is indeed very beautiful, and peculiar only 
to itself, resembling a fine piece of Irish stitch, being check- 
ered with various colors in every feather, except the flight 
which is white ; the more red it has mixed with the other 
colors, the more valuable it is. Some are gravel-eyed, and 
some bull-eyed, but it is equally indifferent which eye it has. 
COLUMBA GUTTUROSA SALIENS. 
The Uploper. 
The Uploper is a pigeon bred originally in Holland. Its 
make and shape agrees in every respect with the English 
Pouter, only it is smaller in every property. Its crop is 
very round, in which it generally buries its bill; its legs are 
very small and slender, and its toes are short and close to- 
gether, on which it treads so nicely, that when moving you 
may put anything under the ball of its foot; it is close- 
thighed, plays very upright, and when it approaches the 
hen, generally leaps to her, with its tail spread, which is 
the reason the name is given to it from the Dutch word 
“uplopen,” which signifies to leap up. These pigeons are 
generally all blue, white, or black, though I will not assert 
that there are no pieds of the species. There are but few of 
them in England, and I have been informed that in Holland 
they have asked five-and-twenty guineas for a single pair of 
them. 
COLUMBA TABELLARIT GUTTUROSA. 
The Pouting-Horseman. 
This pigeon is a bastard strain between the Cropper and 
the Horseman, and according to the number of times that their 
young ones are bred over from the Cropper, they are called 
first, second, or third bred; and the oftener they are bred 
over, the larger their crop proves. The reason of breeding 
these pigeons is to improve the strain of the Pouters, by 
making them close-thighed, though it is apt to make them 
rump from the Horseman’s blood. They are a very merry 
pigeon upon a house, and by often dashing off are good to 
pitch stray pigeons that are at a loss to find their own home. 
They breed often and are good nurses, generally feeding 
their young ones well. I have known these pigeons to be 
six inches and six and a half in legs ; they are a hearty 
pigeon, and, give them but meat and water, need very little 
other attendance. Some of them will home ten or twenty 
miles. 
COLUMBA REYOLYENS. 
The Tumbler. 
This bird is so called from an innate faculty peculiar to 
this species, which is their tumbling in the air, and which 
they effect by throwing themselves over backward, after the 
same manner that the most expert artists in tumbling per- 
form what they call the back-spring. 
A Tumbler is a very small pigeon, short-bodied, full- 
breasted, thin-necked, spindle-beaked, and a short button- 
head, and the irides of the eye of a bright pearl color. 
The Dutch Tumbler is much of the same make, but larger; 
often feathered- legged, and more jowlter-headed, with a thin 
flesh or skin round the eye, not unlike a very sheer Dragon; 
some people do not esteem them on this account, though I 
have known very good ones of the Dutch breed, not any- 
