The variation of animals and plants under domestication . ps inflated. After one of my birds hadswallowed a good- meal of peas and water, as he flew up in order todisgorge them and feed his nearly fledged young, I heard the peasrattling in liis inflated crop as if in a bladder. When flying, thoyoften strike the backs of their wings togetlier, and thus make aclapping noise. Pouters stand remarkably upright, and their bodies are thmand elongated. In connection with this form of body, the ribs aregenerally broader and tlie vertebrae more numerous than in otherbreeds. From their manner of standing
The variation of animals and plants under domestication . ps inflated. After one of my birds hadswallowed a good- meal of peas and water, as he flew up in order todisgorge them and feed his nearly fledged young, I heard the peasrattling in liis inflated crop as if in a bladder. When flying, thoyoften strike the backs of their wings togetlier, and thus make aclapping noise. Pouters stand remarkably upright, and their bodies are thmand elongated. In connection with this form of body, the ribs aregenerally broader and tlie vertebrae more numerous than in otherbreeds. From their manner of standing their legs appear longerthan they reallv are, though, in proportion with those of C. Ufia,the legs and feet are actually longer. The wings appear much Chap. V. DESCRIPTION OF BREEDS. 141 elongated, but by measurement, in relation to the length of body,this is not the case. The beak likewise a[)pears longer, but it isin fact a little shorter (about .03 of an int-li), proportionally withthe size of the body, and relatively to the beak of the Fig. 18—English Pouter. The Pouter, though not bulky, is a large bird; I measured onewhich was 34* inches from tip to tip of wing, and 10 fromtip of beak to end of tnil. In a wild rock-i) from the Shet-land Islands the same measurements gave only 28^ and 14:]. There 142 DOMESTIC PIGEONS. Chap. V. are many sub-varieties of the Pouter of different colours, butthese I pass over. Sub-7-ace II. Dtitcli Pouter.—This seems to be the parent-formof our improved English Pouter. I kept a pair, but I suspect thatthey were not pure birds. They are smaller than English pouters,and less well developed in all their characters. Neumeister ^ saysthat the wings are crossed over the tail, and do not reach to Sub-race III. The Lille Pouter.—I know this breed only fromdescription. It approaches in general form the Dutch Pouter, butthe inflated oesophagus assumes a spherical form, as if the pigeonhad swallowed a la
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