ORIENTAL FRILL PIGEONS. 



day. She had a beautiful head, frill, gullet, and 

 foot feather. 



I bred three youngsters from these birds the 

 year I had them. One of the youngsters was a 

 cock I gave to my old friend, David Watson, of 

 East Dulwich, who at that time was breeding 

 Bluettes, but could not get them without the 

 objectionable third bar showing rather promi- 

 nently. 



OBJECTIONABLE THIRD BAR. 



I may here explain to my young friends that 

 all Bluettes and Silverettes are liable to produce 

 a third bar, not a complete bar, but just the 

 commencement of one , above the proper bar , and 

 which usually is solid in colour. This, of course, 

 considerably detracts from the bar proper. 



Also, in Mr Watson's birds, there was a 

 slight chequering, showing the unmistakable 

 traces of having been crossed with blue-laced 

 Satinettes, which I may state here, is an excel- 

 lent thing to do, so far as the blue -laced Satin- 

 ette is concerned, especially when they are 

 getting too washy in lacing and gay in tail. A 

 cross with a Bluette acts as a correction. One of 

 the best plain headed Satinettes, blue laced, I 

 ever had, was a direct cross between a Bluette 

 and a blue-laced Satinette. This bird won the 

 cup at the Dairy Show. His ground colour was 

 remarkably clear, with well defined lacing. 



I mention this bird for another reason. 

 When he was about four years old, Captain 



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