I'KiKoNs AM) ALL AlIOl'T THEM. 



BALDHEADS. 



The Baldhead gets its iiame from its white head. The 

 line starts from the thick part of the lower beak, just misses 

 the eye, and goes around the back of the head at the same 

 angle. 



To make the Bald more beautiful, the head should be nice- 

 ly rounded. The ten large flights should be white. The 

 lower part of the body is white from a line just below the 

 wing butts. 



BEARDS. 



The Beard is thus marked. The body except the flights 

 and tail is solid. Just under the lower beak is a white 

 patch, that extends just under the eye. It is something like 

 a half moon, with the two horns extending to the eye or a 

 little under it. This "beard" is sometimes called a "chuck," 

 but that is only a kind of slang term for it. It is needless to 

 say that the shape of this beard is often "assisted" by fan- 

 ciers. The exactly proper Beard, has ten white flights, 

 though a bird with only eight is tolerated. 



Otherwise good birds are apt to show foul feathers about 

 the thighs and hocks, and this seems to be rather more the 

 case in Beards and Balds than in other marked Tumblers. 



GERMAN BEARDS. 



German Beards are longer in the head and beak than the 

 English birds, but are tight feathered trim birds, that do 

 good work in the air. 



The beak is a pale flesh, in all the colors, the eye a pearl, 

 and the head round, though as stated, rather long. 



Good authorities say that in mating for color in Beards it 

 is not well to cross the colors, but rather to mate straight for 

 the color desired. 



