Fantails

Above me in the gable, a variety of beautiful doves, consisting of Pouters, Tumblers, Ruffs, Carriers and Fantails, was installed.

Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

And the old pauper waxed eloquent on the feats of Homing Birds and Tumblers, and on the points of Almonds and Barbs, Fantails and Pouters; sprinkling his narrative also with high-sounding and heterogeneous titles, such as Dragons and Archangels, Blue Owls and Black Priests, Jacobines, English Horsemen, and Trumpeters.

Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale 1881

Barbs, Fantails and Pouters; sprinkling his narrative also with high sounding and heterogeneous titles, such as Dragons and Archangels, Blue

Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

Those pigeon-fanciers who believe that all the chief races, such as Carriers, Pouters, Fantails, &c., are descended from distinct aboriginal stocks, yet admit that the so-called toy-pigeons, which differ from the rock-pigeon in little except in colour, are descended from this bird.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

Fantails, informs me that his cock birds often have a greater number of tail-feathers than the hens.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

Be careful about Fantails: their tail-feathers are fixed in a radiating position, but they can depress and elevate them.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

Fantails were known in India, as we shall hereafter see, before the year 1600; and we may suspect that in the

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

In Fantails of first-rate merit I have seen some birds with much longer and thinner necks than in others.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

We have seen that the oil-gland is aborted in all Fantails (with the exception of the sub-race from Java), and, I may add, so hereditary is this tendency to abortion, that some, although not all, of the mongrels from the Fantail and Pouter had no oil-gland; in one Swallow out of many which I have examined, and in two

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

With {159} Fantails, as we have seen, the number varies from fourteen to forty-two.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845