Pigeons
Definitions:
- Body-mark: coloured body and white tail
- Dun: grey-brown
- Grizzle: a peppered combination of white and colour
- Saddle: ten outside primaries and underside of the body white, the rest coloured
- Splash: coloured body with 25%-75% splashed and white
- Squab: for the purpose of meat
- Tail-mark white body and coloured tail
- Breed (Origin)
- Description
- American Roller (USA)
- Any shade or blend; Use: Performing, Stunting
- Birmingham Roller (United Kingdom)
- Various; Use: Performing, Stunting
- Broad-tailed Shaker: See -- Fantail
- Carneau (Belgium, France)
- Black, dun, red, white, or yellow; Use: Showing, Squab
- Chinese Owl (Asia)
- Almond, ash-red, ash-yellow, blue, brown, grizzle, indigo, khaki, pied, saddle, silver-white, or splash; Use: Squab
- Cropper (??)
- ??; Use: Interest, inflating of crop
- English Trumpeter (United Kingdom)
- Almond, barred, black, cream, dun, lavender, marked, mottled, red, saddle, silver, splashed, white, or yellow; Use: ??
- Fantail (India)
- Almond, black, blue, brown, body-mark, chestnut, cream, checkered, dun, golden-buff, grizzle, silver, splash, tail-mark, white; Use: Performer
- Giant Homer (USA)
- Blue check, or silver; Use: Squab
- Helmet (Europe)
- Almond, black and green sheen, blue, brown, cream, dun, indigo, khaki, lavender-grey, red, silver, yellow; contrasting coloured crest on head; Use: Decoy for racing pigeons
- Hungarian (Austria)
- White, with various colours; Use: Showing, Squab
- King (USA)
- Blue, dun, red, silver, white, or yellow; Use: Showing, Squab
- Lahore (Iran)
- Like a penguin; Use: Squab
- Maltese (Austria, Germany)
- Black, blue, dun, red, silver, white, or yellow; Use: Crossbreeding, Showing
- Modena (Italy)
- Barred, checkered, barless, at least 150 colour variations; Use: Breeding, Flying, Pigeon-knapping, Showing
- Mondain (France, Italy)
- Various; Use: Showing, Squab
- Nun (??)
- White, with black; Use: Interest, being attached to owner
- Oriental Tumbler (Eastern Asia)
- Almond, ash-red, black, checked, dun, grizzle, red, T-pattern, white, yellow; Use: Performing, Stunting
- Pouter (??)
- ??; Use: Interest, inflating of crop
- Runt (Ancient Europe)
- Bar, black, blue, dun, red, silver, white, or yellow; Use: Squab
- Shirzai: See -- Lahore
- Strassers (Moravia)
- Black, brown, checkered, dun, red, or yellow; Use: ??
- Tippler (??)
- Rich, deep metallic copper; Use: Formerly long-term flying, but tumbling now bred out
