THE PIGEON STANDARD. 79 
THE SWIPT. 
Head is rather round and full; the beak short and stout; 
the eyes of adeep red color; the throat is devoid of all 
appearance of a gullet; the neck is thick and cobby, support- 
ed by broad shoulders and a prominent, full chest; the back 
islong and flat; the space trom the surface of the back to 
the front end of the breast-bone or keel shows a considerable 
depth, the breast-bone being rather long and very straight. 
The thighs are strong and muscular. In color, Swifts are of 
an ashy powdery shade from the base of the neck downwards; 
the neck itself is very lustrous, and varies in richness of color 
from almond to dun tints, in proportion as the body is of 
dark ashy hue or of pale silvery dun tint. 
THE DAMASCENE. 
In size and structure it greatly resembles the English Owl. 
Its head is round, rather short and full in front; the beak is 
short, thick and black; the upper mandible being slightly 
curved; the eye is rather centrally placed, and is of a deep 
gravel color, surrounded by a thin very dark eye cere, even 
of a dark damson tinge. In plumage, the outer surface pre- 
sents a clear, light, silvery-blue shade, extending from the 
head all over the neck, back, shoulders, chest, belly, thighs 
and rump, the tail having a deep black bar at its tip, and the 
shoulders having two very distinct ebony bars, the flights 
being also as nearly black as possible. The flight feathers 
are moderately long, as is also the tail. The Damascene has 
a gullet but no frill. 
THE DEWLAP. 
It is generally of blue ground color; black barred on wings 
and tail; in build rather cobby, like the English Owl, but 
sumewhat larger in size; it should have rather a stout, short 
beak and gravel colored eyes. Its most “app point is its 
enurmous gullet, which extends from the immediate base of 
the under mandible fully one inch in length down towards 
the breast; itis also much deeper than that of ordinary 
gulleted pigeons. The markings consist of a white narrow 
snip of feathers like that of the ‘‘Blazeface,’’ just over the 
wattle, and of two triangular white patches on either side ot 
the neck, about three-quarters of an inch below the eyes, 
The ten major flight feathers are also white. The whole of 
the rest of the body plumage is of one color excepting the 
bars in blues and silvers. The upper mandible should be as 
near white as possible. the under one black. The legs are 
devoid of all feathers below the hock joints, and should be 
very coral-red in color. 
