THE PIGEON STANDARD. 77 
THE ICE PIGEON. 
Some are spangled on a very pale blue ground, others are 
laced, some neither the one nurthe other; butin all cases 
the Wing bars are very gracefully edged with a black or blue’ 
trimming. The flight and tail feathers are more or less dark, 
with a dark bar across the tip of the tail. The eyes are fiery 
red, surrounded by the thinnest of eye ceres; the beak is 
slender and jet black. The Ice pigeon is sometimes clean 
legged, sometimes heavily fuot feathered. 
THE PRIEST. 
In plumage the ground color is of all shades, the blue be- 
ing mostcommon, but reds, blacks, yellows and silvers are 
frequently met with, and now and again very prettily spangled 
and chequer-shoulder specimens are seen, The markings 
consist of white skulls or ‘‘pates;’’ the line of separation 
between the body color and the crown of the head is froma 
point where the mandibles meet, passing in clean-cut fashion 
on a line with the lower part of the eye cere, and rising to 
the base of the crown of the head atthe back. The upper 
mandible is white, the under one of a dark color, The wing 
bars in all colors are snow white, in some specimens the bar 
across the tip of the tailisalso white. The Priest is shell- 
crested, the shell extending from ear to ear; the eyes are 
black or “bull eyed;"’ itis grouse muffed on the legs to the 
instep of the foot. The principal feature of the Priest is, 
however, its nasal tuft; this is a cluster of feathers just over 
the wattle, growing the reverse way to those of any other 
variety of pigeons: these feathers are long, very soft, and 
curl close and tightly above each other. 
THE LATZ. 
The Latz has ashell crest; itis white in body plumage, 
with the exception of the head, bib, chest and tail, which 
are black, red or yellow, ete. The most remarkable feature 
of the Latz is the possession of a long chain of loose reversed 
feathers extending from the crest down each side of the neck; 
the eyes are pearl colored, and the feet free from feathering. 
THE TIGER. 
The reason for its ferocious name is its striped plumage 
sovering. Foot feathering is very profuse, some of the longer 
feathers measuring fully five inches, and evenly overlapping 
each other. Lines of dark feathers should spread in more or 
less regular formation all over the white ground color; the 
flight feathers, both lesser and major, as well as those of the 
tail, should be alternately white and dark in shade, this 
arrangement of color extending especially to the foot feath- 
ering. Tigers are shell crested, 
