Identifier: pigeonstheirstru00tege (find matches)
Title: Pigeons: their structure, varieties, habits, and management
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Tegetmeier, W. B. (William Bernhard), 1816-1912 Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906, ill Hanson, Elisha, former owner. DSI Leighton Bros. (Printer), printer of plates
Subjects: Pigeons Pigeon breeds
Publisher: London, New York : G. Routledge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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to describe these breeds in separatechapters, and we shall first consider the high-class fancy, or English Carrier. Of the origin of this valued breed there is no special record. All domesticatedpigeons have a tendency to variation in the amount of naked membrane aroundthe eye and over the nostrils, and this, when growing to an unusual extent, havingpleased the taste of the early fanciers, has been propagated by careful breeding,increased by the process of artificial selection, and conjoined to an extremelyelongated beak and well-developed limbs, until at last the English Carrier hasbeen produced. The term English Carrier may be applied to this breed with strict accuracy, forin no other country do birds exist possessing their characters. There are to befound in other countries birds with the membrane around the eye highly developed,as, for example, those known as Barbs. Others have the beak extremely elongated,as the Scanderoons, the Bagndctten of the Germans, and the Bagadais of the
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LEtCLTON, UUOlHLJlb. BLACK CAEEIEE. THE ENGLISH CAEKIEE. 75 French amateurs; but no bird containing the properties of the Carrier is to bemet with abroad, excepting in the case of birds exported from England. Such being the case, we turn to the earliest English authority on fancy pigeonsfor a description of their properties, and find that Moore, in his Columbarium,writes as follows :— The Carrier is larger in size than most of the common sorts of pigeons : Tmeasured one whose length from the point of the beak to the extremity of the tailwas fifteen inches; this, though not one of the largest, weighed near twentyounces. Their flesh is naturally firm, and their feathers close, when they standerect upon their legs ; their necks being usually long, there appears in them awonderful symmetry of shapebeyond other pigeons. The upper chap of the bill is half covered from the head, with a nakedwhite tuberous furfuraceous flesh, which projects or hangs over both its sides onthe upper part near

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