. Fancy pigeons: containing full directions for their breeding and management, with descriptions of every known variety, and all other information of interest or use to pigeon fanciers. Pigeons. 146 / uincv P /iSCons. without any tendency to the absurd exaggeration of any fancy point. Of course no really practical judge would give a prize in a homing class even to such a bird unless he were in first rate condition, with his plumage hard and firm, the flight feathers broad and overlapping, and the bones of the wing well clothed with powerful muscles. To prove that this bird is as good as he loo
. Fancy pigeons: containing full directions for their breeding and management, with descriptions of every known variety, and all other information of interest or use to pigeon fanciers. Pigeons. 146 / uincv P /iSCons. without any tendency to the absurd exaggeration of any fancy point. Of course no really practical judge would give a prize in a homing class even to such a bird unless he were in first rate condition, with his plumage hard and firm, the flight feathers broad and overlapping, and the bones of the wing well clothed with powerful muscles. To prove that this bird is as good as he looks, I may give his history. He was hatched early in 1874 from a bird of Mons. Ch. Mills, that was one of the first winners in the great annual national match, from MarseilleSj in the south of France, to Belgium—a 500 miles race. The same year, as a young bird, he flew. 17,1 Pifi. 3. from St. Quentin and Greil (about 200 miles), and in 1875 he again flew from St. Quentin, taking first prize; also from Paris, Orleans, and wag a winner in the race from London—200 mUes. " At my request Mons. Ch. Mills sent him over to show at the Alexandra poultry show, 19th Oct., 1875, and I induced him—very reluctantly, I am afraid—to part with him. The bird was necessarily useless to me to fly, for, on liberation, he would doubtless have returned to Brussels, as I have had birds do after two years' confinement in. 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 Lyell, James C. London, "The Bazaar" Office
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