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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beak wattle is small, neat, and should be tilted forward from theforehead. The beak is black, tapering, and slightly curved, differing very much inits character from the elongated box beak that distinguishes a Carrier. Theplumage is more firm and dense than in any other variety of fancy pigeon. Thewings are fully developed, not only as regards the bony framework and muscle,but also in the quill or flight feathers. From the close character of the plumage of the neck and body the wing standsout from the breast, and gives an appearance of great firmness and strength tothe bird. Mr. Jones Percival, one of the most ardent admirers and successful breeders ofthis variety, states :— My idea of what a Dragon should be is as follows :—In a blue Dragon thecolour should not resemble that of a light blue Owl or Turbit, but should be a darksound blue ; the bars on the wings should be perfectly black and broad; themetallic lustre of the neck should reach as low down in front as the point of the
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DRAGONS.

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