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pouter

a breed of domestic pigeon with a large crop capable of being greatly puffed out
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And the English pouter and Brunner pouter are closely related, yet the former has foot feathers and the latter does not.
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There are capuchins with ruffed necks, fantails with imposing tail displays, and pouters shown with their crops impressively extended-and this is without getting into the wide range of colors and markings and feather patterns that have appeared in the species and been coaxed to extremes by breeders.
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he found 14 or 15 tail feathers in some of the Pouters he possessed, a "Nun" with 13 and a "Helmet" with 15 (Darwin 1868).
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Train your metal pouters not to slop over the top of the mold and stop when the riser is full.
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(40.) Stephen Blydon Cleveland, History of the War Between the United States and Tripoli and other Barbary Pouters (Salem: Gazette Office, 1806), 114; Thomas Clark, Naval History of the United States, 2d ed., 2 vols.
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