. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . ged little from the wild race, but inmany different partsof the Old World the making of improvedvarieties began thousands of years ago, andin some places peculiar types were developedwhich were little known elsewhere untilmodern times. The varieties of the pigeonare so numerous that it is practically impos-sible to make a complete list of them. Atthe large shows in this country, classes aremade for more than onehundred fifty named vari-^l eties, in about forty breeds. In many of these breeds there are eight or ten principal colorvarietie
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . ged little from the wild race, but inmany different partsof the Old World the making of improvedvarieties began thousands of years ago, andin some places peculiar types were developedwhich were little known elsewhere untilmodern times. The varieties of the pigeonare so numerous that it is practically impos-sible to make a complete list of them. Atthe large shows in this country, classes aremade for more than onehundred fifty named vari-^l eties, in about forty breeds. In many of these breeds there are eight or ten principal colorvarieties, and an indefinite number of lesspopular varieties, specimens of which com-pete in a miscellaneous competition in whatis called the any other variety class. Thereare probably nearly three hundred varietiesFig. 1S9. Blue-barred f • bred in America and England. OnHomer1 F 0 . p ^ , f . the continent ot Europe the number is very much greater. The Triganica pigeon has one hundred fifty-twocolor varieties, and it is said that another variety in Germany,.
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