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Pure White and Pale Yellow. — The colour of 

 these birds must be pure white or pale yellow, un- 

 tainted with dark feathers of any kind. 



Belgian. — The hody — Long, tapering, and slender ; 

 liead — square, wide, and flat; neck — long, tapering, 

 and snake-like. The chief characteristics of this 

 breed is the high square shoulder and erect position 

 when standing on the perch, the pinions of the wings 

 being placed much higher up on the back than in any 

 other variety. 



TuENCRESTS. — Birds with a crest of feathers at the 

 top of the head, hanging down over the beak and eyes. 

 In breeding birds of this description it should be 

 remembered that only one of the parent birds should 

 be crested. If both are crested there is the proba- 

 bility that many of the oifspring will be deficient in 

 this appendage, if they are not positively bald. 





