. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. varies so much that our limitedspace will not allow us to say any-thing about it. The distinctionbetween tumblers with longbeaks and those with shortbeaks explains itself; butthese divisions aredivided again, the firstinto white-winged,white-bearded,magpie, striped,Hanoverian,and Viennesetumblers ; thesecond intoGerman, Eng-lish, almond-colored, LittleNun, and Jacobin tumblers, so that a volumewould be needed for this race alone. The turbit, or frilled, pigeons, of variouscolors, are known by many names the worldover. They are
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. varies so much that our limitedspace will not allow us to say any-thing about it. The distinctionbetween tumblers with longbeaks and those with shortbeaks explains itself; butthese divisions aredivided again, the firstinto white-winged,white-bearded,magpie, striped,Hanoverian,and Viennesetumblers ; thesecond intoGerman, Eng-lish, almond-colored, LittleNun, and Jacobin tumblers, so that a volumewould be needed for this race alone. The turbit, or frilled, pigeons, of variouscolors, are known by many names the worldover. They are not large, but are very activeand well shaped. Their heads are rather angu-and the feathers of the breast are frizzedshirt frill, hence their name. Theyre much admired at choice species, also in de-mand for exhibitions, is the pea-cock, or fan-tailed, pigeo7t; itsjrincipal colors are white,blue, or black, and thechief breeds are theEnglish, Scotch, Ger-man, and French,all of which carrytheir tails spreadout like fans or thetails of The Tumbler Pigeox, Old Dutch Breed
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