Racing and fancy pigeon breeds: Polish pigeon 1, pouter 2, termigan or rock ptarmigan, Lagopus muta 3, and turbet or turbit, Columba livia 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Pass after an illustration by J. Stead from William Augustus Osbaldiston’s The British Sportsman, or Nobleman, Gentleman and Farmer’s Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, J. Stead, London, 1792.

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