ORIENTAL FRILL PIGEONS. 



were concerned, there would not appear much 

 difference. But by taking the two birds in 

 your hands and opening the wings out there is a 

 marked difference, and this is one of the points 

 I desire to explain to beginners in Orientals. 

 There are ten primary and ten secondary flight 

 feathers in each wing. Nature has so wisely 

 arranged it that the structure of the feathers are 

 so formed as to curve in opposite directions, thus 

 from a flying point of view giving the bird greater 

 buoyancy and resistance in flight. And if my 

 young friends will take a bird firmly in the left 

 hand and open out the right wing or vice versa, 

 they will plainly see the division between the 

 ten primary and the ten secondary flights, and 

 which takes the shape of the letter V. In the 

 case of the Satinette family, the ten primaries 

 should be white, and the ten secondaries coloured, 

 whereas in the whole family of Blond inettes 

 both primaries and secondaries are coloured. 



KEEP TO ONE VARIETY ! 



This is one difference . We will take another . 

 The Satinette has a white head, neck, and body, 

 including the feathers on shins and feet, whereas 

 in the Blond inette the whole bird is coloured, or 

 should be. I have seen some of the red-laced and 

 yellow-laced which in their nest garb were 

 prettily but lightly laced, which moulted out 

 practically white all over. Such birds, of 



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