THE PIGEON STANDARD. 23 
Whitesides—The whole of the body including tail and pri- 
mary flights should be sound color throughout. The 
shoulders, wing coverts and secondary flights pure 
white. Beak—Flesh color, except in blacks. 
Self Colors—Red, yellow, black and white, sound, rich and 
even color throughout, black showing a green metal- 
lic lustre. Beaks—Flesh color, except in blacks. 
Barred Varieties—Blues, silvers and chequers to possess 
broad, even black bars, and free from ticking or kite 
color. Beak—In blues and chequers very dark, and 
in silvers horn color. 
Saddles—Black, blue, red and yellow. The two former to be 
-dark tailed; the two latter to be dark or light tailed. 
Head markings—A snip or blaze up front of face, 
with a full white beard extending from back of eye 
to back of eye under beak, forming a bib; with the 
dark patches running pear shaped into it from the 
centre of lower mandible, the latter called whiskers. 
In addition, a dot over each eye about the size ofa 
hemp seed, with a white band extending around, 
with the exception of a heart shape on the back, 
which is dark, giving the bird the name, 
Badges—Same as Saddles except body color, which should 
be dark except foot feathering and ten lower flights 
which should be white. Head marks same as Saddle, 
