The dovecote and the aviary The dovecote and the aviary : being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state : with hints for their management dovecoteaviarybe00dixo Year: [18--.] Bald-jmtc. Runt. Turbit. CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC PIGEONS. Fantails: their powers.—Effects of crossing.—Accident to one.—Pigeon Paon.—The lean poet of Cos.—Eunts.—Pigeon mondains.—Comparison of eggs and weights.—Synonyms of Runts.—Runts at sea.—Rodney's bantam.—Pecu- liarities of Runts.—Runts in Italy.—Effects of crossing.—Trumpeters.—Arch- angel Pigeons.—Nuns.—Jacobines.—Colum
The dovecote and the aviary The dovecote and the aviary : being sketches of the natural history of pigeons and other domestic birds in a captive state : with hints for their management dovecoteaviarybe00dixo Year: [18--.] Bald-jmtc. Runt. Turbit. CHAPTER IV. DOMESTIC PIGEONS. Fantails: their powers.—Effects of crossing.—Accident to one.—Pigeon Paon.—The lean poet of Cos.—Eunts.—Pigeon mondains.—Comparison of eggs and weights.—Synonyms of Runts.—Runts at sea.—Rodney's bantam.—Pecu- liarities of Runts.—Runts in Italy.—Effects of crossing.—Trumpeters.—Arch- angel Pigeons.—Nuns.—Jacobines.—Columbarian distinctions.—Supposed cari- cature.— Turbits.—Temminck's ideas.—Owls.—Progress of the young.—Rapid growth.—Barbs.—Tumblers.—Their performance in the air.—Feats of wing.— The Almond.—Peculiarity of form.—Learning to tumble.—Baldpates.—Hel- mets.—Powters and Croppers.—Their carriage, flight, and colouring.—Defects and remedies.—Crosses.—Carriers.—Castle of the birds.—How they find their way.—Phrenological hypothesis.—Carriers in Turkey.—Sir John Ross's birds. —Explanation.—Antwerp Carriers.—De Beranger.—English Carriers.—Oriental origin.—Lace and Frizzled Pigeons.—Eggs and young of the Columbidae. —Quarrels and attachments.—Mating.—Love of home.—Food.—Merits of the Runts.—Etymology of the Trumpeter. Fantails are by no means the miserable degraded monsters that many writers would induce us to believe
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