. The practical pigeon keeper. Pigeons. 206 IBE PRACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. and marking, and next to these heavy points are colour leg-feather. Priests resemble Swallows in shell-crest and muffed legs, but have an additional tuft or crest over the nose, thus marking a kind of transition between the Swallow and the more heavily- furnished Trumpeter. The nasal tuft is found both rose-shaped and parted. The upper mandible is light, the lower dark;. Swallows. nasal tuft and top of head white to the crest, which is coloured; crest and all else coloured, except v^hite wing-hars ; rarely there is also a
. The practical pigeon keeper. Pigeons. 206 IBE PRACTICAL PIGEON KEEPER. and marking, and next to these heavy points are colour leg-feather. Priests resemble Swallows in shell-crest and muffed legs, but have an additional tuft or crest over the nose, thus marking a kind of transition between the Swallow and the more heavily- furnished Trumpeter. The nasal tuft is found both rose-shaped and parted. The upper mandible is light, the lower dark;. Swallows. nasal tuft and top of head white to the crest, which is coloured; crest and all else coloured, except v^hite wing-hars ; rarely there is also a white tail-band, which is an additional point of value. In blues the white bars are edged with black. The colours are blue, black, red, and yellow. Brunsmcks are like Priests, with the sole difference that the white on the head extends over the shell-crest and the flights are white. Letz pigeons are of the same class, but the nasal tuft becomes a well-developed "rose," and the legs are more heavily feathered and ^iilture-hocked : in all these points making a still closer approach to the Trumpeter, a cross of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wright, Lewis, 1838-1905. London, New York, Cassell
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