Skin – *The skin of pigeon like any other vertebrate composed of two layers – outer epidermis and inner dermis. *Epidermis is ectodermal in origin while dermis is mesodermal in origin. *Epidermis is in turn made up of two layers viz., stratum corneum and stratum germinativum or profoundum. *Stratum corneum is multilayered, outer part of epidermis which is keratinized without any uni or multi cellular gland cell.
