Several days back there was a thread on pigeon feathers for tying. In my
internet wanderings I came across a pattern in The Complete Angler that
contains a pattern with pigeon!!!
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/walton/cotton2.html#chapter%20viii
The Complete Angler
Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton
Part II.
Chapter VIII.
July
7. There is also taken this month, a Black-blue Dun; the dubbing of the
fur of a black rabbit mixed with a little yellow, the wings of the feather
of a blue pigeon's wing.
Does Cotton mean a blue feather from a Pigeon? or a feather from a Blue
Pigeon?
Probably he meant a Blue Pigeon
Images of the Seychelles Blue-Pigeon and Madagascar Blue-Pigeon
may be found on the following web pages.
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Sampler3-PigeonsDoves.htm
http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/Sampler3-PigeonsDoves.htm>
Anyway, the Rock Dove or Common Pigeon certainly does have feathers that
you can use for tying.
The world is my source for tying materials, pigeons included.
Ed
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