PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION. 



Having received many requests from Oriental 

 Frill Fanciers to reproduce in book form my 

 series of articles which appeared in Pigeons 

 during 1917-1918, / make no apologies for its 

 introduction. As stated in one of my early 

 articles, without the aid of coloured illustrations 

 it is difficult to convey to the amateur the differ- 

 ences in shades of colour as between, say, in the 

 Satinette family, a Blue -laced, Sulphur -laced, 

 or a Brunette; or in the Blondinette family, 

 a Blue -laced, Sulphur -laced. Brown-laced, or 

 a Red-laced; Black-laced and Dun-laced in 

 either breeds present no difficulty, as one colour 

 is counterpart of the other. However, I have done 

 the next best thing, and that is to illustrate various 

 varieties of the Oriental Frill family by photo- 

 graphy from life, as, with the exception of the 

 Crested Blue Turbiteen and the Blue -barred Blond- 

 inette, which were photographed from pictures 



