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Domestic animals

Full account of Lotrus by Mr. W. J. Moore in Indian Medical Gazette Jan. & Feb. 1873.—

He shows that pricking base of brain & giving Hydrocyanic A. with strychnine, brings on convulsive movements exactly like those of the Tumbler.— One Breed, An ordinary pigeon a non-breather when which does not the brains of which had been pricked, completely recovered & ever afterwards occasionally made somersaults.— p 150??

[Variation 2d ed. 1: 228: "We do not know the origin of the common Tumbler, but we may suppose that a bird was born with some affection of the brain, leading it to make somersaults in the air;46 and before the year 1600 pigeons remarkable for their diversified manner of flight were much valued in India, and by the order of the Emperor Akber Khan were sedulously trained and carefully matched.
46 Mr. W. J. Moore gives a full account of the Ground Tumblers of India ('Indian Medical Gazette,' Jan. and Feb. 1873), and says the pricking the base of the brain, and giving hydrocyanic acid, together with strychnine, to an ordinary pigeon, brings on convulsive movements exactly like those of a Tumbler. One pigeon, the brain of which had been pricked, completely recovered, and ever afterwards occasionally made somersaults."]