Moubray's Treatise on Domestic and Ornamental Poultry; A Practical Guide to the History, Breeding, Rearing, Feeding, Fattening, and General Management of Fowls and Pigeons baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...at the ends, around the lower part and back of the head, forming a small tuft; and from the feathers of this tuft at the back being white, tipped underneath and meeting with the snowy feathers of the back of the neck, (which are also a little ruffled, ) many writers have been led to describe the Nun as having a " white tuft; " but we are satisfied that good clean-feathered birds should have the hood and tuft of a uniform whole colour. According to the shade of the coloured plumage, they are styled yellow-headed, (query hooded?) red-headed, &c. Temminck speaks of some with plumage the reverse of what we have described, the body being black, with the head and flights pure white: surely he must have mistaken a Bald-pate or Helmet Tumbler for a Nun; at any rate no such Nuns are found in this country. The head and bill should be small and neatly formed, and the eye bright with a pearl-white iris. 36. Ruff."--This is often described as a bastard strain, though we think it may with more propriety be looked upon as the original type of the breed now known to Fanciers as the Jacobine. The Treatise states, that it " is in feather, shape, and make much the same as a Jacobine, insomuch that they have been frequently sold for such: " and at the present day they seem to be entirely absorbed in the breed for which it is thus said to have been passed off, for they never make their appearance at the exhibitions. The similarity between the RufF and the Jacobine obviates the necessity for describing it, as it possesses all the features of the Jacobine, though in an inferior and less perfect degree, and united in a body of coarser mould and larger proportions. 31. Jack, or Jacobine.--This pretty little pigeon is so named from the ecclesiastical hood of feathers which...