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all the rest running close iu points. In does the first was 21 J by 

 4^ inches : and one of the best in the Show was a Sooty Fa'mi 

 doe only four mouths old, and 21 by -1} inches ; most of the 

 others also measured well. Both the Himalayan and Silver- 

 Greys were as perfect as could be, and shown in fine condition. 

 G&ME.— Black-breasted and other Iteda.—l, E. Aykroyd, Eccleshill. 2. C. 

 Chaloner. WhitweU, CheslerHeld. he, J. Vf. Will, Errol ; O. Chalonor. c, P. 

 Sales & Bentle y ; H. E. Martin. Sculthorpe. Itucbwings. — Cup and 1, C. Chaloner. 

 2, C. Travis, Thargoland, Sheffield, c, F. Sales 4 Bentley, Crowlc. White and 

 -1 and 2, F. Sales & Bentley. c, H. B. Marlin. Any variety.— Coeh— I, 



i'iUs.- 



E. Aykroyd. 2, C. Chaloner. he, G. P. Triclier, Fakenham (Duckwing) 

 Coupe, Doncaster. 



Spanish.— 1, J. Powell, Bradford. 2, J. Walker, Bradford, he, J. F. SilUtoe, 

 Wolverhamplon ; T. C. & E. Newbitt. c, G. Hurst. Longton. 



Brahmas.— Ltf7/(( or Dark.~\ and c. H. Lacy, Hebden Bridge. 2, H. Beldon, 

 Goitstock. he, W. Harvey, Sheffield. 



Cochins.— 1, H. Laey. ;!. .1. While, Winla 



Haubdbghs.— Go^t/ or Sih-' v-.^junuiUd — 

 Wottram. Gold or Silrcr-p,ii,-iUi<l.—\ and •:, H. lieldon. 



Any otbee Variety.— 1. II. Bcldnn a'ulaiuls). 2, C. H. Smith, Batoliffeon- 

 Trent (Creve-CoBurs). /ic. ,1. W'hite (Grey Dorkings); W.Harvey (Dorkings). 

 —Cock-i, G. Hurst (Spanish). 2. W. Harvev. 

 " ' ----- loi- (Buff 



Any Vabie' 

 he, IVIrs. Cross, Appleby Vicarage, Brig;^ 

 Cochin) ; H. Beldon. c, E. J. Poer (Creve-Cfflur), 



up andl, H. Beldon. 



Hen. 



2, T. C. Addey, Askern. he, F. Sales i Beutley ; R. H. Ashtnn, Mottram ; W. 

 Bearpark; J. Powell {Black Spanish); J. Thresh, Bradford (Spanish); C. 

 Chaloner (Game). 



Gaue Bantams.— B/«cfc-6?Ta5(ert and other Beds.— I, G. Holmes, Driffield. 2, 

 T. C. & E. Newbitt, Epworth. he, Tomlinson & Kirkby. Any other Variety.— 

 Cup and 1, T. C. & E. Newbitt. 2, Hudsen & Bnrnip. Epworth (Duckwings). 



Bantams.— Blaci or Wliite.—l and he, R. H. Ashton. 2, H. Beldon. Any 

 other Variety.-l, H. Beldon. 2, J. Watts, King's Heath, Birmingham. S, W. 

 HarTey. 



Bantam —.•)?iv Vnrirty.—Cock. — l, 3. Barlow. Monkwcarnionth. 2, R H. 

 Ashton. he. Master W. Sales, .iun, Crowle. Ben.— I and 2, T.C. &E. Newbitt. 

 he.It.W \.l . :, ; r. Dnwson, Epw.n-th. 



Di ' rfio«fn.-l,W.H.Robson,Reston, Louth. 2, J.White. 



Anii^' i ind 2, W.Binns.Pudsey (Ruddy Shell and Bahama), lie, 



E. H. .\Miin II ., .1 iin). 



SELl.l.^^. Ci..v>^.—1, G. Holmes. 2, J. IMills, Healey, Rochdale. 

 PIGEONS. 



Caeeier.— Cup and 1, G. J. Taylor. 2, E. Horner, Harewood, Leeds, he, R. 

 Dawson. Beverley : E. Homer. 



PoniEE.- 1, W. Harvey. 2, E. Homer, he, G. J. Taylor, Huddersfleld; E. 



TcMBLEE.— 1 and 2. E. Horaer. he, G. J. Taylor ; W. Harvey ; H. Yardley. 



Jacobin.— 1, W. Kiichen. Blackburn. 2, R. 6. Sanders, Beverley, he. R. G. 



Sanders; W. Croft, Killinghall, Ripley; T. Waddington, Fenniscowlcs, Black- 



Fantail.— 1 and 2, J. F. Lovu'sidge, Newark, he, J. Hairsine, Hull; A. A. 

 Vander Meersch, Tooting; H. Yardley. c, R. Jenninss. 



■ G. J. Tavlor. 2,W.Cro£t. ftc, J. W. Watson, Bradford (2); A. A. 



without foundation. I challenge him to show the best Dragoon, 

 any colour, with a 2-inch beak, either a young or old bird, for 

 any amount, and beg to inform him, if he has not any, I have. 

 — John G. Dunn. 



[We have omitted all you wrote about other parties ; they 

 can use their own pens. — Ens.] 



SILVER DRAGOONS. 



TPHBIT, 



Vander Meersch ; W. Kitchen. 

 Magpie,— 1, J. Hairsine. 



A. A. Vander Meersch. 

 ir. he, a. J. Taylor ; 



Vande 



he, A, 



T. Waddington, 



Barb.-I, W. Harvey. 2, E. Hoi 

 H. Yardley. 



Antwerp.-], H. Yardley. 2, W, Harvey, he, J. Hairsine; Mrs. Entwisle, 

 Cleckheaton (2) ; E. Homer ; C. F. Coperaan, Birmingham. 



Any other Variety.- 1, B. Homer. 2, Mrs. Entwisle (Silver Owl). S, W. 

 G. Waters. 4, T. Waddington. 



Selling Class.— 1, R. G. Sanders (Jacobins). 2, J. E. Crofts, he, J. E. 

 Crofts ; C. Gravil, jnn , Thome. 



CAGE BIRDS. 

 r Buff.— I, G. Shelling, Hull. 2, J. Woolas, Gainsboroush. 

 >rou!rh (21 ; R. Harrap, Doncaster. Green or Varlenated. — 

 . Sli..lli.i>r ;«-, G. Shelling ; J. Woolas. c. Miss C. Robin- 



LlZARD.— Go/,/ 

 Goldfinch. 



LiN.VET.— 1. «. 1 I 



R. A. Beckett, Epwo 

 Mrs. T. Kirk. 



Vaeh 



d.—y, T. Green, Gainsborough. 



. 2, Master W. Slight. Epworth, 



nham, 2, W,Balmtorth, Epworth. I'/tc, Mist 



lames, Epworth. c, G. I. Blaydes, Epworth 



1 Grass Parakeet) 



The pah- of Silver Dragoons, or, as they have been called* 

 "washed-out Blues," by those who, I i^resume, never saw a 

 genuine Silver before, were bred by me. I have been an ad- 

 mirer of Blues and Silvers from boyhood. Thirty-foiu- years 

 have elapsed since I commenced with two pairs of Blue Dra- 

 goons, which I purchased from an old Spitalfields weaver. He 

 exhibited six Blues and two Silvers at a fancy house, then 

 called " The Bowl and Pin," in St, Luke's. I assure you they 

 were different from those termed Dragoons at the present day. 



Some few years later I entered a sweepstakes fly from Graves- 

 end to London, and purchased for the race, from a shop iu 

 Spitalfields, a young Silver Dragoon cock. He had a splendid 

 broad black bar. He was the first winner, and I fiew him many 

 matches afterwards. On two occasions he fiew the distance 

 (twenty- four miles) to where I resided under twenty-one minutes. 

 From this cook and a Blue hen are the strain of my present 

 Blues and Silvers. By referring to Hell's Life, 4th of Septem- 

 ber, 1853, you may see a challenge for two yotmg Silver Dra- 

 goons, bred from the above-named Silver cock, to fly against 

 anyone from Gravesend to London for i'5 a-side. 



The reason why I mention these facts is to show that my 

 birds are thorough-bred Dragoons, not Toys. I have at this 

 time a Silver cock sixteen years old ; he has a bar equal to any 

 Blue, and has been the winner of twenty-six out of thirty-eight 

 matches. Mr. Graham's Silver cock is bred from him and a 

 Blue hen. The Silver hen that he has matched to him is from 

 a Blue cock and a Silver hen. 



Dun-barred Silvers have been exhibited in conseqtieuce of 

 the genuine Silver becoming nearly extinct. When the Antwerp 

 came into notoriety, upwards of tweuty years since, the Dra- 

 goon-fanciers crossed Dragoons with the Antwerp, regardless of 

 colour or beauty, to obtain speed, and in this way deteriorated 

 the old English Dragoon. To replace them, the best Blues 

 that could be procured were crossed with the Carrier breed : 

 hence the dun bar. I have been far and near to see better 

 Silvers than those I possess, but have never had my wish grati- 

 fied. — W. GrosoN, Barnshury. 



-1, Mis3 Allen, Epworth (Australi 



2. J. Woolas, 3, G, Shelling (linldflnch Mule). /i</. D. Salisbury, Epworth 

 Shelling (Goldfinch Nule; J. Woolas; G. Lindley, Epworth. 

 RABBITP. 



top-EABED.- Buci:.— 1, A. H. Fasten, Bull. 2. J, J. S. Clark. Doncaster. he, 

 W. Dawson; H. Cawood, Thorne. Z>oe.— 1 and 2, H. Cawood. lie, A. H Easten 

 c, J. J. S. Clark ; Mas er S. M. Peace. Thome ; R. Leggolt. 



Hlsialayan.- 1 and he. Master S. M. Peace. 2, A. H. Easten. 



Silvee-Grey.— 1, R. 11. Glew, Epworth. 2, S. G. Hudson, he, G. Woodley, 

 Thome (2). 



Judges, — Foultry and Fir/eons : Capt. Heaton, Worsley, Man- 

 chester; Mr. E. Hutton, Pudsey, Leeds. Ca</e Birds: Mr. E. 

 Hutton. Babbits: Mr. E. Hutton; and Mr. J. Spinks, Gains- 

 borough. 



SILVER DRAGOON BARS. 



I WAS pleased to see Mr. Percivall so fully upholding what 

 I have stated about his winning birds as quite correct. .After 

 this I think it useless to say more than there are no black- 

 barred birds now any more than there were then, and that a 

 Silver should be a Silver, and not a washed-out Blue with Eite- 

 coloured bars, the same as the second-prize Palace and Birming- 

 ham birds were. 



Mr. PercivaU says that Silver Dragoons should decidedly have 

 black bars, and wherever he may be called upon to judge he will 

 certainly endorse such opinion by awarding prizes to black- 

 barred Silvers in preference to their brown-barred brethren, 

 ■(vith which coloiu- Mr. Percivall himself has won since 1866 aU 

 his first prizes at Birmingham, and, consequently, earned his 

 name by brown-barred birds. Consoling this to the many fan- 

 ciers who have purchased brown-barred birds of Mr. Percivall 

 solely through his success in exhibiting! Fortimately Mr. Perci- 

 vaU is not called upon to adjtidicate at many shows. — H. Allsop. 



EVEN-MARKED CANARIES AND MULES. 



HuDDEBSFiELD, Hahf.ax, Dewsbury, Bradford, Bacup, Black- 

 burn, Burnley, Rochdale, and Oldham are the principal places 

 having Canary societies, .and which have stated rules from which 

 the marked bu'ds have to be judged. I enclose one of their 

 schedules. 



[Estract from Baciip Rules. — " 3.— All birds to be shown iu cages with flat 

 tops- Members residing within three miles will have to pay Sd. each meeting 

 night, whether they attend or not, and all members residing within thi-ee 

 miles will have to let their birds remain on the stage until nine o'clock, whether 

 they are borrowed birds or not. 



" 4. — The Belgian birds to he judged by the following points — viz. : 



1st. SiiuiII flat head. | 4th. Good back and well filled. 



2nd. I..;i ■ !■' ,;. . :Ih • neck. 5th. Goodness of feather. 



3rd. II '■ III', 'i.iilders. ] Gth. Richness of colour. 



" 5.- ' . i :. ir beak, legs, and too nails, to have the preference of a 



bh-d Willi iiM:!,,',i ,,1.. -, 



Mottled birds— 



1st. Equally marked on each eye, wing, and tail. 



2nd. With a clear* ran from the beak to the end of the tail. 



3rd. Goodness of feather and richness of colour. 



" 6. — The Chintz and Black Mottled bii-ds to form one class, the preference 

 to be given to the Black Mottled," — Eds,] 



If, as Mr. Wallace .stated, the cap-marked birds emanated 

 from these societies, it would appear as if they had arrived at the 

 same opinion as myself; for with the exception of the tail marks 

 being "now" of not so much importance as formerly, their 

 rules are the same as stated above ; no cap-marked bird is 

 allowed to compete, for does not the second rule distinctly bar it 

 by stating " with a clear run from the beak to the end of the 

 tail?" which plainly means that a cap, a saddle, and an entirely 

 dark tail are all to be considered as foul. 



Mr. Wallace is probably not aware that Mr. Calvert was left 

 entirely to his o'UTi opinion when giving his awards at th& 

 Middlesbrough Show where Mr. Beloe claimed the second-prize 

 (cap-marked) even-marked bird ; and as the schedule gave no 

 standard of rules for judging, the Committee were' powerless in 

 the matter, although I believe they were of opinion that the cap- 

 marked bird was not even, and consequently in its wrong class. 



— R. H-iWMAN. 



Me. W. J. W. Pass, of Bury, says it is quite absurd of me B.4TH and West or England Society, — The prize schedule of 

 saying the beak of a Dragoon should be 2 inches, and, moreover, this Show, to be held at Dorchester on the 3rd of June, is most 



