Show 1111 PIGEON GEON peculiarities points gathered in a store characteristics of pig cons soine are very tery jealous yi suu A large while white pigeon with a full breast and little eyes strutted up and down on the counter in the bird fancier s store while the bird fancier and several of his era em floyces cloaked at it admiringly occasionally the pigeon inflated lis h is neck lowered its head bead and went roq round and round in a circle at the tile same timo time cooing loudly the green parrot in in the window stared at it aith in manifest discontent and the whit macaw which usually usually amused itself by watching the tile goly gold fish shrieked he is the handsomest flin fantail tail pigeon igeon that I 1 have ever seen the eird bird fanchi y r said 1 I just re received him and his hii mate from a friend who lives in the country the pair cost 8 but I 1 would not sell them for considerably more just look at his tail I 1 have havo counted thirty two large feathers in it you see the fan is double the female bird is in the cage there the pi pigeon geon referred to yau otso so large as the one on the counter shelva she was more delicately built the neck was graceful and slender and there was a small wall white crest on the back of the ibe head her tail however was as full as that of the ot other her but was not so much spread why do you not let her out on the counter too the reporter inquired she it too timid just watch iier her a Dionie moment nt and you will see by the motion of her neck and the twitching of her wings eliat she is is afraid and is on the alert for danger dauger I 1 intend to keep the pair for breed breeding and I 1 have great hopes f or their progeny fantail pigeons according to my ideas are the handsomest 0 of the rhe tame pigeons ous anever I 1 never saw sav one which was wag not perfectly graceful alay fly prettily and grow row tame very easily are there many varieties of pigeons 1 I 1 think that there are about twenty thebert the best known are the fantails ran fan tails so called because their tails look like a fan the jacobin which has on its head a ruff run of raised feathers like thebold the hood of a monk the pouter which can inflate its oesophagus aneil it distorts itself out of all reasonable shape the tumbler which altes fifes high in the air air and then drops down gumbl tumbling i n g over and over like an acrobat springing from fromn a trapeze and the carrier pageo pigeon 11 which is often used to carev carry letters miles and miles the jacobin is not a bad looking pigeon it is small and blegan elegantly t I 1 y shaped ila p it generally has white wings and tail ta band and a brown hood what particular beauty ia i A there in tho the pouter 1 I never could seo see any it swells up its neck until its head can call scarcely be seen then it revolves itself as though on a pivot and acts as if it thought ib it elethe elf the sv s1 ell pigeon of the town they the y are ar rather costly and sometimes sell as high as 10 per pair they often grow very large and are much bought by pigeon fabier fa cier ciers arc are there many pigeon m fan ciers As quite a ft large number tiie arc are more however in the country than in the lite cities the pigeon is is a most curious bird hird and inq habits are acal really ly interesting I 1 lla have studied their peculiarities for years and I 1 dont know what has given me rue greater 9 reater satisfaction c they arc are not considered rema remark r aulo that is s because they are not generally understood I 1 sometimes think they can almost reason i in telli gently and I 1 know that they communicate with each other goibe some way ive seen a pigeon leave its coop and fly off and be gone maybe two hours then it returned accompanied compa nied by two other pigeons which at once proceeded to take up their residence on oil the premises A friend of mine wine who lives uptown up town was very partial to pigeons and erected in his hig rearward rear yard a large pigeon bouse in which were sixteen compartments he lie had seven or eight pairs of pigeon pigeons some of which were valuable E eveaj very morning he lie fed them with cracked corn and wheat and us as he be had P plenty enty of leisure watched them for hours one in morning orning he lie missed a pair of fantalis fan fant taik alls and thought that some one might have climbed over alie t fence at iii night lit and stolen themi them tl the following morning there was another pair less at the feeding spot but lie noticed that on top of the pigi pigeon co n house were two gray pigeons which i didiot did not make an effort to eat with the oilier other pigeons IV when hen the meal was over and the tile pigeons were back on oil tile house the tile kran strangers geri went among the others in a most businesslike business like way my aly friend bays ys that it looked for all the world sa aa as athey if they were trying to persuade his pigeons pigeons to do lo tom something ething unusual while he lie was watching the strang en hew flew away followed by another p pair a r of his pigeon pigeons which did not noi return the next day th the gray pigeons showed up promptly aud and in less than a fortnight from frog the tile iad time me that he missed the first pair he had not a pigeon left did he be ever fin find d out out what be came of them I 1 he thought that they could not be very far off and learning that a grocer who lived a dozen blocks away had a great many pigeons he lie spoke ok to him of his loss the grocer laughed and said that he lie had a eair pair of gray pigeons which had brought rought more than a hundred strange pigeons 4 to his place my frien got his pigeons back pack an and took t them hern home again again pigeons cant be kept at home if it they dont want lo 10 stay unless their wings arc are clipped clip ed or th eyare kept cooped up 1 in the c first instance there arc are big chances that the n neighbors neighbors cat will afta eat them and in the he second there is is no satisfaction in having pigeons if you cant see them flying around if you want to keep pigeons buy a pair of pigeons and put them in one of the compartment of ibe be house I 1 and then put a piece of wood against t the he door so that they cannot get c t outi out of cou course m you must no not t shut out all the air keep them th there ere over night and find then after throwing will some feed about the house me take away the obstruction they will probably come out ali and fly to a neighboring housetop house top by and by they will fly back to your pigeon house and a week later y iou ou cannot draye them away do fati fanciers ciers lose pigeons which are not enticed away by other pigeons frequently pigeons ii like ke company pan yand and I 1 are likely to go where there are large gatherings there is a brewery ha ba more P pigeons geons to the square place I 1 have seen I 1 begin to tell how many most of them I 1 am told were never bought by the rop I 1 ri 2 weri were cither attracted ey by the crowd or were enticed there it is said that coonc 0 one can can ke keep ep pigeons within the radius of a mile of the brewery y i what arc the he charleter cha characteristics sties of 11 pigeons 9 1 I could not begin to describe them all they are botic bably affectionate ta and anil it was probably from this reason the ancients held them sacred to venus A pi pigeon eon you yoli know was said to have joeed her constant attendant pigeons are also very jealous I 1 have noticed a male pigeon get got into a great rage because it happened to see nu all other pigeon n near ear its mate and anti drive it out of the neighborhood how does the male pigeon act when the female is sitting gP very considerately indeed NY chy by ho be sits on the eggs egg half the till time while the female flies es around and stretches her wings tile they 8 seem eem to take turns at sitting one sits until it gets tired or the other thinks it ought to be relieved th the eggs 0 rs are not left uncovered for a moment young pigeons are the ugliest things in the world I 1 will attempt to des describe them they are perfectly helpless and for a lung long time ars are entirely destitute of feather ers they pass their time squeaking for food which is given them by their parents cen eren after the they y are good sized pigeon it is amusing them fed are there very han handsome diome wild pigeons yes indeed there are there is is a pigeon called tho the nutmeg pi pigeon is very beautiful it is about abou t eighteen inches long longani lon gand and has a pale blulah bluish gray body with golden green back wings and tail and is of a deep deets chestnut under the tail cov er erts ts the metallic luster varies with every ro motion tion and rivals the tile the humming bird it id 6 called the nutmeg pigeon I 1 think because its chief food iod is the nutmeg it also cats figs there is is one athing on thing about pigeons w which I 1 forgot to nion mention tion the bird fancier said os as the reporter was going out which is very inter esting maybe you will explain that to me now vt certainly pigeons are very good eating I 1 like them thein best beat potted |