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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s were sold far beyond theirreal worth. The author of the Treatise states that many of the birds sold in 1765 werevery indifferent, and that the best afterwards sold for a much higher price thanthey realized at the auction ; so with Mr. Bults birds, many of the inferiorspecimens were resold at Mr. Stevenss in subsequent seasons, and producedonly a portion of their first cost, whilst many of the best specimens, afterwardsprivately resold, produced much larger sums than they did when disposed of bythe hammer of Mr. Stevens. High as these prices obtained at these sales may appear, they have been farsurpassed at the present time: £10 is by no means an uncommon price for a good-limbed and well-marked bird, and as large a sum as £20 each has not un-frequently been given for very superior Pouters. In fact, such a sum is always tobe obtained for a bird whose properties are sufficiently good to place it as awinner at any of the great shows, such as those of Glasgow, Manchester, orBirmingham.
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CHAPTER VI. FOREIGN POUTERS; ISABELS, BRUNNEN OR PIGMY POUTERS, SEVERAL varieties of Pouters are to be found on the continent of Europewhich are not much known in our own country. The common Pouters ofGermany, Holland, and France are very similar to the old Dutch Croppers, asdescribed by Moore, whose account of the breed is quoted in the last chapter. Theyare large pigeons, with well-distended globular crops. They often possess greatlength of feather; but their legs are short, and, consequently, their carriage is noterect, and they cannot compare in elegance with the English birds. In colourthey vary greatly, the continental amateurs devoting great care to the productionof variations in the colour and markings of the plumage. Some idea of thenumerous varieties thus produced may be gained from the fact that M.M. Boitardand Corbie, in their volume entitled Les Pigeons de Voliere et de Colombier,Paris, 1824, describe nearly twenty varieties in the colour and markings of theContinental Po

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