ORIENTAL FRILL PIGEONS. 



*'Now, take particular notice of this bird. 

 Get the colour and appearance generally well 

 into your mind's eye, and then ask me to show 

 you the same bird when next you call." 



And I have never known an instance when 

 the same bird has been recognised. 



Next in popularity, I think, come the red- 

 laced, and I think the Fancy generally are in- 

 debted to the Rev. W. Dale for the interest he 

 has taken during the last four or five years in 

 trying to improve them. Red-laced Blondin- 

 ettes are generally very good in head properties, 

 and when well laced on a good clear ground 

 colour are very attractive birds. The colour 

 on head, neck, and breast, also of lacing, should 

 be a really good brick-red. Unfortunately, 

 owing doubtless to their superior head properties, 

 fanciers in the past have crossed them with the 

 black -laced, with the result that, so far as breast 

 colour goes, the experiment has proved detri- 

 mental to both. The same may be said of cross- 

 ing the blue-laced Blondinettes with the red. 

 The result in the case of the red -laced has been 

 to produce sooty coloured breasts and tails, 

 and in the blue-laced a bronzy coloured breast, 

 which in this variety should be a clear blue 

 tint. Therefore, in order to get red-laces as they 

 should be, I would strongly recommend the 

 novice to mate red to red, bearing in mind the 

 usefulness, if necessary, of mating a cream or a 

 white with a too solid red. 



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