ORIENTAL FRILL PIGEONS. 



but were pencilled, spangled, or arrow tipped. 

 They were what is often termed tri -colour. 

 The ground colour was nothing like so clear as 

 we see in the birds of the present day. The 

 colourings in the markings were richer, if I may 

 use the term, than our present-day birds — a 

 mixture of pinky brown, purply black and white 

 or pale grey. And if a bird was very regularly 

 marked with a good clear spot tail, and possessed 

 the other good features, such as frill, gullet, 

 grouse leg, and a good napper, he looked very 

 handsome indeed. 



In fact, there are fanciers still with us to-day 

 who remember the early day Satinettes who 

 maintain that in comparison with our up-to-date 

 specimens, so far as colouring is concerned, they 

 prefer the former. Well, I suppose it is purely a 

 matter of taste. To my mind, both are handsome. 

 But for my own part, I give preference to the 

 modern . 



I possess a picturq, a water colour, painted 

 by the late Mr. J. W. Ludlow some thirty years 

 ago, of a group of Oriental Frills, and which I 

 value very much. In this group is a pair of 

 Blue -laced Satinettes of the old pattern so far 

 as colour is concerned. I also have another 

 picture by the same artist. It is also a group of 

 Frills, painted in 1904. In this group is a por- 

 trait of a Crested Blue-laced Satinette cock 

 which I bred over twenty years ago, and which 

 was known as the " Borcarme Cock." It was 

 one of the early light- laced birds, and I venture 



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