. Pigeons: their structure, varieties, habits, and management . shoulder only was coloured,the wing bars being white. Ice pigeons, as they are called, have recently been much shown; they maybe described as being generally silver or pale-blue in colour, of the ordinary dove-house form, with white wing bars, and with or without chequered wings, havingthe feet more or less feathered. The Swallow is a variety that sometimes has a class awarded it at our pigeonshows. Mr. Brent was a great admirer of this very pretty breed, and we willinglytake his description as the best that has been published :—
. Pigeons: their structure, varieties, habits, and management . shoulder only was coloured,the wing bars being white. Ice pigeons, as they are called, have recently been much shown; they maybe described as being generally silver or pale-blue in colour, of the ordinary dove-house form, with white wing bars, and with or without chequered wings, havingthe feet more or less feathered. The Swallow is a variety that sometimes has a class awarded it at our pigeonshows. Mr. Brent was a great admirer of this very pretty breed, and we willinglytake his description as the best that has been published :— This beautiful variety of Toy pigeon is called by the French Hirondelle demer, and by the Germans Die See Sclmalben Taube, or for shortness simplySchicalbcn Taubcn, which literally means Swallow pigeon; but as they derive theirname from their marking, which resembles that of a small kind of seagull, calleda Tern, though known to the French and Germans as a Sea Swallow, it followsthat the name Swallow pigeons, as commonly applied to them in this country, is. BliXJE BRUNSWICK S. ■■ . P-*-*o*«2*ai| Bw w^^^^Htt^. ^hi-^^Bifc^^JrJ^jji ^-x ^-* •-; - . J-~*~ BLACK PBIESTS. , D&OB. GERMAN TOYS. 173 inappropriate, and that the proper English name would be Tern or Gull Germans also designate them Feen Tauben (Fairy pigeons) and Numberger,or Farben Flugeliche. Of all the Toy pigeons (I mean those I have classed as such, in distinctionfrom the fancy pigeons, which have many properties) these are, with the exceptionof the Suabian Spangled pigeons, the most worthy of the fanciers notice, theirdecided and beautiful marking, and the contrast of then- colour, placing them incharacter above the general run of Toys. They are good breeders, about the sizeof the Dovehouse pigeon, and are equally light and active in their movements,though the feather-footed varieties, which are most esteemed on the Continent, arenot well adapted to provide their own living, owing to th
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