Identifier: centuryillustratv32newy (find matches)
Title: The century illustrated monthly magazine
Year: 1882 (1880s)
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Subjects: American literature
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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The length of the bird from tip of beak to end oftail is seventeen and one-half inches. Thestandard for judging the carrier is as follows : Beak and beak-wattle; length, shape, and thicknessof beak, each 4 ; color 2 ; shape of upper wattle 10; lower wattle 3, color 2; texture 2 31 Space between eye and beak-wattle 3 Eye-wattle : regularity of build 5 ; diameter 5 ; texture 4; lacing 2 16 Skull: narrowness 5 ; flatness 2 7 Gullet 5 Neck : length 6 ; slenderness 5 II Shoulders : flatness and width 3 Breast : width and fullness 4 Length of flights and tail 4 Thigh 7 Length 5 Color 4 100 The barb, although the antithesis of the car-rier in every point, is its nearest relative. Theyoung of the two during the first few days af-ter hatching can scarcely be distinguished, butthe building once begun, it is with oppositepurpose. The barb is short in beak and down-faced;that is, the forehead and beak are in almost acontinuous line. It is small in size, with the io4 THE BREEDING OF FANCY PIGEONS.
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PYGMY POUTERS. (OWNED BY DR. COOK, OF UTICA, N. Y.) SARAH BERNHARDT AND CLEVELAND, ENGLISH POUTERS.(OWNED BY CHARLES BECKER, BALTIMORE, MD.) neck short, breast broad, legs short, flightslong, and carried each side of the tail. Thegullet is well curved in to increase the appar-ent size of the head. The skull is broad andof equal length and breadth — a perfectcurve from the crown to the beginning of thebeak-wattle, and arched from side to side.The beak • is short and thick, the mandiblesof like shape and boxed; the eye is pearl orwhite. The beak-wattle is divided in the mid- dle, and resembles a small bean split openand laid across the beak, and simply fills thejuncture of beak and head. The jewing isthree small knobs of cere in the middle of thelower mandible, and each side of the gapeof the mouth. The beak-wattle is white, andthe jewing of deep flesh-color. The eye-wattlematures in the third year, and should be ofequal breadth, thickest at the outer edge, theeye standing out in th

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