old English carrier

plural old English carriers

1. alternativeAlternative form of old English Carrier.

   In the body and the shoulders, the Grooters clearly showed the old English carrier ancestry.

   2013, Carl Naether, The Book Of The Racing Pigeon, →ISBN

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   In the Antwerp district was found a large type of pigeon, based on the blood of the old English carrier pigeon taken to Belgium by English fishermen and on the Dragoon, big and heavy wattled, a pigeon that reached maturity very early and at the age of a year was said to fly successfully the longest distances.

   1961, J. W. Langstone, Making a plan for racing long-distance pigeons, page 28

plural old English Carriers · alternative old English carrier

1. English Carrier.

   I feel that I hurt the feelings of no Carrier fancier, when I state that the show Carrier, the old English Carrier, is not one of the most popular varieties.

   1898, Frank M. Gilbert, Pigeons and All about Them, page 206

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   Even in recent times the best lofts in Antwerp house pigeons still whose general type strongly suggests the old English Dragoon and whose wing and shoulder conformations suggest the old English Carrier.

   1964, Carl Albert Naether, The book of the pigeon and of wild foreign doves, page 54

   The Antwerp pigeons were of a larger type, strong, and in their wattles showed a good deal of the old English Carrier or Dragon crosses used by the Antwerp school many years before.

   2013, Squills, Secrets of Long-Distance Pigeon Racing, →ISBN