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Apsi 1910 
About Pigeons: 
The Exhibition Homer. 
(By J. Noble, in’Phe Australian Hen and 
Fanciers’ Friend.) 
The Exhibition Homer is practically a 
new variety, making rapid headway and 
is one of the most popular varieties cow- 
peting at the present time in the show 
pens throughout Great Britain, 
T note a number of weil known Bnglish 
fanciers have paid special attention to 
improving this new variety, and go suc- 
cessful have they been, that the Exhibi- 
tion Homer of to-day has become estab- 
ished and is one’ of the most favoured 
breed of fancy pigeons, and to quote an 
English writer in that journal ‘Pigeons’ 
recently, thus: ‘The old adherents, of 
that one time proportionate bird, the 
Show Homer, have over almost 
in a body and taken up this new sub- 
variety (the Exhibition Homer) » with 
the greatest enthusiasm,” 1 ask who can. 
deny it isa bird of great beauty, the 
style, vigorous and muscular, hard, tight 
and short feathered, altogether the most 
attractive pigeon. Little wonder it has 
fascinated the fanciers of Great Britain. 
Competition of the Classics is heavy, 
At the recent great International Show in 
London twelve classes were provided for 
the Exhibition Homer, and these averaged 
over 12 birds per class, ‘proof plenty,’ aB 
to their’ ‘brip of the ‘English ” fanciers. 
Good specimens are in great demand, and 
at the present time will command almost 
any figure from £10 upwards. 
With, the object of stil greater progress, 
come 
the National Exhibition’ Homer Society, | 
thas been formed, and is. going strong. 
The scale controlling its show proper- 
ties are:—Head 15, beak 4, wattle 2, eye 
and centre 12, neck 6, chest 5, back 5, 
body 5, wings, flights and tail 15, carriage 
2, sixe 5, color 4, condition 12, legs 2 keel 
4—total 100, The following is an extract 
from ‘an article by }S. Peat, Hon. Sec. 
National. Exhibition Homer Society, and 
-appeared In ‘Pigeons’: -- 
“thickness. 
THE. AUSTRALIAN 6 GARDENER. 
‘The beak should be stout having aha oe 
fitting upper and’ lower mandebles, or 
halves of almost equal thickness, dead 
straight in setting, and of a hard dark, 
colour. Pieds may nave parti-coloured 
beaks. In the beak setting lies much of 
the diflerenee between the Exhibition 
Homer and its predecessor, the Show 
Homer. This straight setting must be 
maintained, at all costs. or 
objectfor which this variety was intreduced 
one great 
will be destroyed 
The wattle is V shaped, smal] and 
smooth ; in fact, it should be free from 
any coarseness whatever, A fish white 
eye is desirable though a pearl one is 
allowed, but of either colour it must be 
bold, alert, and intelligent Cere is an 
important point, as no matter how bright 
white, and bold the eye, unless it is 
surrounded by a fine, hard, small, sweetly 
dark-coloured cere, a bird looks 
Pieds may have parti- 
coloured ceres. The neck we require of 
medium length and thickness. A broad 
and ful chest is needed to produce a 
wedge shape. The back must be short— 
the shorter the better —flat ; broad across 
the shoulders, tapering to rump and tail, 
io form a triangle or wedge. The body 
short, straight in breast bone, deep keeled 
wide in front, and wedge-shaped in finish 
behind.’ 
T find in our Standard we say ‘Wings 
fairly short’ but we want them short to 
conform to.a short back. Never have I 
geen a bird with the’erect and bold car- 
riage we require unless it had short back 
and flights. 
A close- fitting tail nytt the appear- 
ance of one feather. carried clear of the 
ground, is & good description of what we 
want; but I will add the word small, 
The legs must be of medium length and 
These'should be set back as 
far as possible to give that upright, bold 
carriage so necessary to the -bird’s finish: 
Colour must be sound, bright and hard, 
The Chequers to have a bold and distinct 
chequering—not ofa dull, washed out 
appearanice. / 
Given a pigeon of medium 
ossessing tke points I haye enumerated, 
T think we should all -be delighted, and 
feast our eyes long upon such a beautiful 
specimen of the Columbarian tribe. 
laced, 
eoarse in head. 
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