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An argument of great weight, and applicable in several other cases, is, that the above-specified breeds, though agreeing generally with the wild rock-pigeon in constitution, habits, voice, colouring, and in most parts of their structure, yet are certainly highly abnormal in other parts; we may look in vain through the whole great family of Columbidae for a beak like that of the English carrier, or that of the short-faced tumbler, or barb; for reversed feathers like those of the Jacobin; for a crop like that of the pouter; for tail-feathers like those of the fantail.
Pouter pigeon, late development of the large crop in. Powell, Dr., on stridulation. Power, Dr., on the different colours of the sexes in a species of Squilla. Powys, Mr., on the habits of the chaffinch in Corfu. Pre-eminence of man. Preference for males by female birds; shewn by mammals, in pairing. Prehensile organs. Presbytis entellus, fighting of the male.
Learn that it is a pigeon however, and immediately it rushes towards us across the distance, like something seen through a telescope. No doubt to the pigeon-fancier this would seem but the first lisping of knowledge, and he would not think much of our acquaintance with pigeons if we could not tell a carrier from a pouter.
The guards saluted as Domber got out. He puffed up like a pouter pigeon and shouted: "Heil Hitler!" They walked up the steps and entered the house. A man met them in the vestibule. He took Domber's hat and cane and stared at Stan. "See that Lieutenant Wilson is furnished a complete outfit of clothing. Show him to the east room." Domber spoke in English. "Yes, Herr Domber," the man said and bowed.
But for most of the time he had been a prisoner in jail. He looked out at the Pond. So much water had fallen in it that it was swelling up like a pouter pigeon, or like the bowl that held the Chinese Lily, when he dropped pebbles in it. My, how Duckie the Stepchild must like this weather! There he was now, and his father and his mother and all his relatives.
If any two species have arisen from a common stock in the same way as the carrier and the pouter, say, have arisen from the rock-pigeon, then the common stock of these two species need be no more intermediate between the two than the rock-pigeon is between the carrier and pouter.
The frequent presence of fourteen or even sixteen tail-feathers in the pouter may be considered as a variation representing the normal structure of another race, the fantail.
If any two species have arisen from a common stock in the same way as the carrier and the pouter, say, have arisen from the rock-pigeon, then the common stock of these two species need be no more intermediate between the two than the rock-pigeon is between the carrier and pouter.
Thus, the spaniel and the greyhound, the dray-horse and the Arab, the pouter and the tumbler, breed together with perfect freedom, and their mongrels, if matched with other mongrels of the same kind, are equally fertile.
These birds are very different in appearance, the pouter, for example, has the power of inflating his crop until it puffs out in front as large as a baseball. Jacobins or as they are commonly called, "ruffle-necks," have an immense ruffle of feathers like a feather boa. Dragoons have a huge wart on the bill as large as an almond.
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