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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
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These have a dark ground, black, red, or yellow, and occa-sionally dun, slightly mottled with white on the wings, and sometimes also on theback. TYhen Short-faced Mottles approach the standard of merit laid down bythe breeders, they are of very considerable value. The birds should have thehead, beak, eye, and carriage of the best-bred Almonds. The ground-colour of the-body should be uniform and sound, either a deep lustrous black, a bright red orbrilliant yellow, as the case may be. The tail and flight-feathers, like those ofthe head and body, should be free from white, and the wing only mottled withwhite; though some amateurs desire to see a few white marks on the backbetween the wings. It is hardly necessary to say that birds possessing allthese properties conjoined are very difficult to breed, and their value is propor-tionally high. Leaving the Short-faced Tumblers of other colours, we now come to the con-sideration of the most valued pets of the fanciers — the celebrated Almond
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LBiGHTON, EROS. BLACK MOTTLED TUMBLERS. THE SHORT-FACED TUMBLER. 113 Tumblers. Many discussions have arisen as to the origin of this name. Moore,the earliest writer who notices the breed, speaks of it as the Ermine Tumbler,vulgarly called the Almond. We cannot but think this a mistake, as the markingson the bird show no resemblance whatever to what is known as ermine, either inthe animal so called, which is white and black, or in heraldry. Possibly the termmay have arisen from the comparison of the general ground-colour of the bird withthat of the shell of an almond; but even the author of the Treatise, who gavethe first good description of the breed, says he is at a loss to explain the meaningof the name. In treating of this breed, we do so with some considerable anxiety, hardlydaring to hope that our statements will meet with general assent amongstfanciers, who are divided amongst themselves as to what constitutes the greatestmerit in the breed; some estimating the closest approach

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