PIGEON NOTES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume L, Issue 8999, 23 January 1906, Page 3

PIGEON NOTES.

Mr Higham, the well-known English Show Homer fancier, has obtained great prices in bis time for his birds. But recently he beat all records for big prices for pigeons by selling a black chequer hen for £130.

Mr Higham, about the time of the above saX, was offered . £100 for a red cock, which he refused. The bird 6tood cardless in his pen at the Dairy Show, and ■fcho big price offered and refused must Have set the judgei athinlzhxg. Bufc then it is only another illustration of how experts differ. When the engine which drew the quarter to eleven a.m. train from Hawera to New Plymouth one day recently went into the local engine-shed, the driver (Mr Moose-man) was astonished to find a dustcovered homer pigeon perched on the crossbar of the brake grat, under the after part of the engine. The bird was weak and hungry, and eagerly ate cake and other food proffered to it. It had -evidently Tiddan on ths lor-otnotive for some distance, probably from Hawera. On one of its legs is a ring, inscribed "G.P., 98, 7979." It haa been suggested that during a strong wind the bird became weak, and as night began to fall sought shelter in the- engin»-«£od at Hawera, choosing the position la which it was found as a sleeping place. Whan the engine started ite day's work, the bird was too tired or too frightened to quit its position.

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