The variation of animals and plants under domestication . wn as carriers. Sub-race II. Dragons; Persian Carriers.—The English Dragondiffers from the improved English Carrier in being smaller in allits dimensions, and in having less wattle round the eyes and overthe nostrils, and none on the lower mandible. Sir W Elliot sentme from Madras a Bagdad Carrier (sometimes called khandosi),the name of which shows its Persian origin; it would be consid-ered here a verv poor Dragon; the body was of the size of therock-pigeon, with the beak a little longer, namely, 1 inch fromthe tip to the feathered bas
The variation of animals and plants under domestication . wn as carriers. Sub-race II. Dragons; Persian Carriers.—The English Dragondiffers from the improved English Carrier in being smaller in allits dimensions, and in having less wattle round the eyes and overthe nostrils, and none on the lower mandible. Sir W Elliot sentme from Madras a Bagdad Carrier (sometimes called khandosi),the name of which shows its Persian origin; it would be consid-ered here a verv poor Dragon; the body was of the size of therock-pigeon, with the beak a little longer, namely, 1 inch fromthe tip to the feathered base. The skin round the eyes was onlyslightly wattled, whilst that over the nostrils was fairly Hon. C. Murrav, also, sent me two Carriers direct from 1 er-sia; these had nearly the same character as the Madras bird, 144 DOMESTIC PIGEONS. Chap. V. being about as large as the rock-pigeon, but the beak in one speci-men was as much as in length; the skin over the nostrils wasonly moderately, and that round the eyes scarcely at all Suh-race III. Baqaclotten-Tauhen of Neumeister (Pavdotten-or Hocker-Taubcn).—1 owe to the kindness of Mr. Baily, jun., a Chap. V. DESCRIPTION OF BREEDS. I45 dead specimen of this singular breed imported from Cermanv ItIS certainly allied to the Hunts; nevertheless, from its closeallin-ity with Carriers, it will be convenient here to describe it. Thebeak is long, and is hooked or bowed downwards in a hidilv re-markable manner, as will be seen in the woodcut to be lu-iLviftergiven when I treat of the skeleton. The eyes are surrounded bva wide space of bright red skin, which, aswell as that over tlienostrils, IS moderately wattled. The breast-bone is remarkablvprotuberant, being abruptly bowed outwards. The feet and tarsiare of great length, larger than in first-rate English whole bird is of large size, but in proportion to the size of thebody the feathers of the wing and tail are short; a wild rock-T)ig-eon, of con
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