76 THE PIGEON STANDARD. 
THE CRESCENT OR SWISS. 
Closely resembles the Starling in shape and marking, with 
the exception that the body ground is of a very pale ashy- 
grey color; on the chest it has a rich brown-red crescent, the 
wing bars being of the same rich color, standing out very 
distinctly from the ground color. Crescents are either plain 
leg or booted. The beak is slender and of a pale brown color. 
THE BLAZEFACE. 
Of all colors, rich in lustre and generally clean legged; the 
tail feathers from the rump downwards to the tips are snow 
white, as are also the two wing bars; the rump and the 
whole of the rest of the body are dark in _ color. 
The blaze mark from which they derive their name consists 
of a well defined white oblong spot of feathers just over the 
wattle, extending about a quarter of an inch in length, and 
about one-eighth of an inch in width, exactly in the centre 
of the forehead; the beak is slender and dark in color. 
THE FIRE PIGEON. 
The Fire Pigeon much resembles the Blazeface in that it 
has a similar white tail, and occasionally has also a like 
white spot over the wattle. The whole of the body plumage 
is aspangled mixture of grizzled and laced dazzling rich red 
spangling onalustrous black underground; either grouse 
muffed or feather legged. 
THE HELMET. 
The whole of the body coloring is white, with the exception 
of the lower part of the rump and tail, and particularly the 
crown of the head, which, ata direct line from the juncture 
of the mandibles to the back of the skull drawn just across 
the lower eyelid, should be dark in color, forming a helmet- 
like covering tothe head. These helmet and tail markings, 
are of all colors and shades. The Helmet is a clean-legged 
pigeon. The under mandible of the beak should be white 
like the body color, the upper mandible should be dark in 
shade according tothe color of the helmet marking; eyes 
should be silvery white. 
THE SPOT. 
The Spot resembles the Helmet in all points but two—the 
eyes of Spots are generally bull or black; the head, or rather 
face marking, shuuld not in size, extending from the wattle, 
be much larger than a large pea; it should also be as round 
as possible. Spots are generally clean legged, but, if foot 
feathered, the latter should be of the same color as the tail 
and spot marking. 
