PIGEONS AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 191 



CLEAN LEG TUMBLERS. 



IT must not be supposed that the long faced clean legged 

 Tumbler is at all out of date. The long faced clean-leg 

 has many admirers, and always will have. The clean- 

 legs run in solids (or sell's) Mottles, and Rosewings, White- 

 sides, Balds, Almunds, and there are also German Beards, 

 and Danish Tumblers. 



In all colors, the eye should be pearl. The eye cere is pale 

 and very narrow, and it should not be red, as this gives a 

 kind of coarse look to the head. 



MOTTLES. 



A good Mottle has say twenty to thirty-live white feathers 

 in the w r ings, and slightly away from the butts, where they 

 stand clear and distinct. But a common fault is that they 

 run into the wing butts, and therefore spoil the finished ap- 

 pearance of the true mottle. These white feathers must not 

 run together, but be distinct. These white dots appear 

 again at the base of the neck and extend over the back like 

 a triangle with the base next to the neck. 



ROSEWINGS. 



In Rosewings the dots appear in a circle on the wings. 

 There should be about as many as on the wings of the Mot- 

 tle. In England some whites have been shown with the 

 rose-wing mark in black, but thej are scarce. 



WHITESIDES. 



Whitesides are another fancy variety. They should be 

 solid colored, but with the wing and the short flights all 

 white. Many of these birds are "made"' birds. They come 

 with colored feathers all through the wings, which are pull- 

 ed again and again till they come white. 



The Whiteside is not a good bird to breed, for the reasons 

 given above. 



