CARRIER PIGEONS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 356, 3 August 1875, Page 3

CARRIER PIGEONS.

( Tall-Mali Budget,) The French Government iias accepted an offer made by an officer in the Belgian army and an inhabitant of Antwerp to place at their disposal four hundred carrier pigeons of the very best breed, most of which have won prizes at the principal pigeon races held in Belgium. Another Belgian gentleman has also sent a number of his best carriers to M. Geoffroy de Saint-Hailaire, president of the Jardin d’Acclimatation. The “ military pigeon house,” which has been formed by the French War Office, is therefore in possession of nearly five hundred carriers, which will soon breed a sufficient supply of pigeons to people the dovecotes which will be erected in the different fortified towns of France. The Journa I des Dehats states that one of the carrier pigeons now in the possession of the Jardin d’Acclimatation has undergone singular vicissitudes of fortune. This pigeon, which was in one of the balloons sent up from Paris during the seige, fell into the hands of the Germans, and Prince Fiederick Charles, to whom it was brought by one of his orderlies,

sent it as a present to his mother, the Princess Charles of Prussia, who had it placed in her dovecote, which contains the best breeds of pigeons in Europe. Aiter remaining in captivity for four years, this bird made its escape, and found its way back to its original home in the Boulevard Clich, and has now been presented by the owner to the “ military pigeon-house” of France.