24(1 PIGEONS AND ALL ABOUT THEM. 



beak, legs clean from feather. The wings and sides are of a 

 tri-color with a triangular dart on en eh feather. This mark- 

 ing also extends across the saddle. 



THE SUABIAN. 



This bird from being so hard to breed true to marking, is 

 quite rare. They may have shells or peak crests, or be plain 

 heads. They may also be clean legged or muffed. 



They run black in color, with a light crescent on breast and 

 running up to a point at back of skull. The wings are 

 spangled, and the tail black with a white band in the best 

 specimens. While the dark bird is the best, it is permissable 

 for them to run to light colors, but the marking in the lat- 

 ter case is of course not so attractive. 



CE PIGEONS. 



These pretty birds come in four colors. They are short, 

 "squatty" birds, rather wild and shy. They run clean or 

 muffed legged. The eyes are dark, and beaks black. Their 

 great point is a sort of powdery blue or lavender tint all over, 

 except in flights. All have light wing bars except the laven- 

 der colored. Some are spangled or laced, and they can be 

 marked in so many different ways that it is hard to say 

 which is the proper idea. The lavender bird has no bars e..- 

 cept the pale birds, which have bars tipped with a black 

 edging. The spangled birds are particularly beautiful, but 

 hard to breed correctly, and this is a fact common to nearly 

 all the varieties of this family of birds. 



THE CAPUCHIN. 



A VERY pretty little pigeon that is rarely seen and 

 especially in this country is the Capuchin. It is of 

 the Oriental variety and is very small, erect in station, 

 and a nice, bright, clean-built little fellow all over. 



It has a broad shell-crest, which should come nicely around 



