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of the London Pigeon Clubs. The diversity of the breeds is something astonishing. Compare the English carrier and the short-faced tumbler, and see the wonderful
dif- ference
difference
in their beaks, entailing corresponding differences in their skulls. The carrier, more especially the male bird, is also remarkable from the wonderful development of the carunculated skin about the
head;
head,
and this is accompanied by greatly elongated eyelids, very large external orifices to the nostrils, and a wide gape of mouth. The short-faced tumbler has a beak in outline almost like that of a finch; and the common tumbler has the singular
and strictly
and strictly
inherited habit of flying at a great height in a compact flock, and tumbling in the air head over heels. The runt is a bird of great size, with
long
long,
massive beak and large feet; some of the sub-breeds of runts have very long necks, others very long wings and tails, others singularly short tails. The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a
very
very
long beak, has a very short and
very
very
broad one. The pouter has a much elongated body, wings, and legs; and its enormously developed crop, which it glories in inflating, may well excite astonishment and even laughter. The turbit has a
very
very
short and conical beak, with a line of reversed feathers down the breast; and it has the habit of continually
expanding,
expanding
slightly,
slightly
the upper part of the œsophagus. The Jacobin has the feathers so much reversed along the back of the neck that they form a
hood;
hood,
and it has, proportionally to its size,
much
much
elongated wing and tail feathers. The trumpeter and laugher, as their names express, utter a very different coo from the other breeds. The fantail has thirty or even forty
tail feathers,
tail-feathers,
instead of twelve or
fourteen
fourteen,
— the
the
normal number in all
the members
members
of the great pigeon
family:
family;
and
and
these feathers are kept expanded, and are carried so
erect,
erect
that in good birds the head and tail