. The practical pigeon keeper . Pigeons. Fig. 28. eye-wattle should harmonise with this. At one time, when breeders went for shortness of face, a Barb cross was resorted to, and the consequence was a kind of eye-wattle like Fig. 27, which quite destroys the character of the head by its projection at the outer edges. If, on the contrary, the eye- wattle lie close at the edges to the skull, and the eye stands out boldly in the centre, as in Fig. 28, a well-developed eye-wattle adds to the apparent size and roundness of head, and is an advantage to the bird. We have seen eye-wattles of the Barb t
. The practical pigeon keeper . Pigeons. Fig. 28. eye-wattle should harmonise with this. At one time, when breeders went for shortness of face, a Barb cross was resorted to, and the consequence was a kind of eye-wattle like Fig. 27, which quite destroys the character of the head by its projection at the outer edges. If, on the contrary, the eye- wattle lie close at the edges to the skull, and the eye stands out boldly in the centre, as in Fig. 28, a well-developed eye-wattle adds to the apparent size and roundness of head, and is an advantage to the bird. We have seen eye-wattles of the Barb type on very good birds, but it is a fault decidedly, and so far spoils the head. Fig. 29 shows the head of a young bird likely with age to develop into Fig. 25, to show how age and development apparently shorten the face. At • E B there may be a slight flat- ness, to be by-and-by filled up by growth of wattle, and the beak from A to P is longer, the beak - wattle at present following at its lower edge the nearly horizontal line of the nostril, whereas with age the wattle drops at the back below the nostril, and so shortens the beak and Tnakes it look thicker. In many cases it really, does thicken a little with age. The space D also appeai-s much greater for the same reasons. It is, therefore, particu- larly necessary to guard against condemning young birds for. Pig. 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 : Cassell
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