78 THE PIGEON STANDARD. 
THE FRILLBACK. 
It is dove headed, thin in eye cere and wattle, slender in 
beak, cobby in build; but very evenly grouse muffed on the 
legs, and possesses a most remarkable arrangement of evenly 
reversed feathers all over the wing covering and saddle of 
the back; these feathers increase in the amount of frilling 
from the shoulders to the coverts of the lesser flights, in the 
former evenly arrauged curls falling one over the other in 
most symmetrical fashion. Frillbacks are of all colors, from 
pure whites to jet blacks. 
THE SPOT SWALLOW. 
Similarly marked on the wings and flights to the Swallow: 
but no dark feathers covering the crown of the head. It has 
a spot or ‘‘snip’’ of black or dark shaded feathers over the 
wattle on the front of the face, instead of the ‘‘cap”’ covering 
the head. In addition to the shoulders being ot dark color, 
the whole of the lengthy foot feathering should also be of the 
same color as the shoulder marking. Of whatever shoulder 
color Spot Swallows may be, the wing bars, excepting those 
with spangled shoulders, must be snow white and very clearly 
defined in bar edging. Some are spangled or laced on the 
wing coverts; if so, the flight feathers should each be tipped 
with an oval white spot. The eyes are dark in color, and 
the upper mandible either black or horn color, according to 
the lighter or darker shade of the wing color plumage. 
THE SHIELD. 
Its shoulder covering should be dark in color, on an other- 
wise completely white-feathered body. ‘The Shield is shell 
crested and possesses a wonderful amount of foot feathering, 
white in color, very lengthy in proportion, and regularly 
overlapping one feather over the other. 
THE FLORENTINE. 
Very long in legs, short in toes, long and swan-like even 
to excess in neck, and short and cocked in tail, like Jenny 
Wren, short and roundish in body, and very prominent in 
chest, rather coarse shaped and long in head and beak; the 
flight feathers are short and carried well over the rump to- 
wards the uprising tail; in plumage it is of all colors, though 
whole whites, blacks and mottled blacks are the most com- 
mon. ‘hey sometimes have a peculiar distorted and tremu- 
ous action. 
