. Pigeons: their structure, varieties, habits, and management . LEIGKTON, BROS. TRUMPETERS. CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRUMPETER AND THE LAUGHER. rpHE earliest notice that we can discover of the Trumpeter is that of Moore,-*- who states :— The Trumpeter is a bird much about the size of a Laugher, and very runt-ishly made ; they are generally pearl-eyed, black-mottled, very feather-footed andlegged, turn-crowned, like the Nun, and sometimes like the Finikin, but muchlarger, which I take to be the better sort, as being more melodious; but the bestcharacteristic to know them, is a tuft of feathers
. Pigeons: their structure, varieties, habits, and management . LEIGKTON, BROS. TRUMPETERS. CHAPTER XVIII. THE TRUMPETER AND THE LAUGHER. rpHE earliest notice that we can discover of the Trumpeter is that of Moore,-*- who states :— The Trumpeter is a bird much about the size of a Laugher, and very runt-ishly made ; they are generally pearl-eyed, black-mottled, very feather-footed andlegged, turn-crowned, like the Nun, and sometimes like the Finikin, but muchlarger, which I take to be the better sort, as being more melodious; but the bestcharacteristic to know them, is a tuft of feathers growing at the root of the beak,and the larger this tuft is, the more they are esteemed. The reason of theirname, is from their imitating the sound of a trumpet after playing; though Ionce inquired of a German, who brought pigeons over to sell here, the reason oftheir being so called, and as he told me, he believed, was that they were firstbrought to Holland by a drummer or trumpeter, and so were called Trumpetersfrom him. Credat Judfeus Appela, let who will swal
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