ORIENTAL FRILL PIGEONS. 



that beginners in Frills can mate either two 

 birds of the same colour or one of each . There are 

 very few plain headed birds amongst them, 

 nearly all being crested. If you have a plain 

 headed one, use him, or her, by all means with a 

 crested one. 



The Vizor shall next claim our attention. 

 This variety of the Satinette family is very rare 

 nowadays, like the proverbial tortoiseshell tom 

 cat. They can be laced or barred as in the blue- 

 laced Satinette, or as the Bluette. But they have 

 a masked head, like the Domino, or similar to 

 what you see in the Nun or the Modena. When 

 one sees a really good specimen it is a most 

 striking bird. 



All the Vizors I have seen from abroad were 

 crested, but I never saw one with what I should 

 call a perfect mask, that is quite solid in colour 

 on head; there were generally a few white 

 feathers showing. Whether the variety was plen- 

 tiful in the early days, I know not, but during 

 my experience of the Frill Fancy I have only 

 known some half-dozen good specimens. 



Some 28 years ago I obtained a beautifully 

 laced pair, which were imported from Smyrna by 

 Mr. Ashford, but were very faulty in mask. 

 All the same, they were a very striking pair of 

 birds, and wonderful breeders, for they bred 

 nearly every variety of Frills except Vizors; 

 blue-laced Blondinettes, blue-barred Blondin- 

 ettes, blue-laced Satinettes, and white Owls. 



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