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
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ncy pigeon is very rare in England, though they aremore frequently to be met with in Saxony. They are about the size and makeof a doyehouse pigeon, with a turned crown; the plumage is white, and theeyes should be gravelly-red ; their chief peculiarity consists in the feathers,each of which is raised at the extremity, so as to form a small conical hollow,which gives the plumage the appearance of having been goffered or raised bya fine pair of curling-tongs. They are light and quick in their flight, but areeasily tamed. There is no doubt that these two singular variations of plumage might, withcare in the breeding and careful selection, be engrafted on any variety. We haveseen some very good Dragons which were fairly frilled on the back; and at theContinental shows, blue and other coloured Frillbacks not unfrequently maketheir appearance. Beyond the singularity in the feathers, Frillbacks offer no peculiarity, nor dothey require any special management distinct from that of other breeds.
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KUH1S, CHAPTEE XXIV. THE RUNT. rPHE title of Bunts is given by the English fanciers to any very large variety of-*- pigeon. It has been in use since the time of Willughby, who states :— ■The greater tame pigeon, called in Italian Tronfo and Astumellato; inEnglish, a Eunt; a name (as I suppose) corrupted from the Italian Tronfo :though, to say the truth, what this Italian word Tronfo signifies, and^consequentlywhy this kind of pigeon is so called, I am altogether ignorant. Some call themColumbce Russicc?, Eussia Pigeons ; whether because they are brought to us out ofEussia, or from some agreement of the names Eunt and Eussia, I know not. Theseseem to be the Campania pigeons of Pliny. They vary much in colour, as mostother domestic birds; wherefore it is to no purpose to describe them by theircolours. Perchance these may be the same with those which, Aldrovandus tells us, arecalled by his countrymen Colombe sotto banche, that is, pigeons under forms orbenches, from their place ; of

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