DOMINOES PRACTICALLY EXTINCT. 



challenge cups (all outright), under Mr. Clement 

 Sharp; 2nd Leicester, under Mr. Blackmore; 

 and 1st and special Walthamstow, under Mr. 

 C. A. House. I sold this cock and his father to 

 Mr. Sharp for £12, and I disposed of the other 

 youngsters for decent prices, one pair to go 

 abroad. So that totalled up, my eighteenpenny 

 cock was not a bad investment. Of course, a 

 stroke of luck of this kind does not come often in 

 a lifetime. 



DOMINOES PRACTICALLY EXTINCT. 



The last member of the Oriental Frill family 

 I have to mention is the Domino. Therefore, it 

 is domino in a double sense. But, alas ! so far 

 as I am aware, the breed is extinct so far as 

 England is concerned. We never had many of 

 them. I had a small stud some twenty -two years 

 ago, the best of them being sent to me by that 

 really good fancier, Mr. J. C. Lyell, who then 

 resided, I believe, at Dundee. The colours were 

 chiefly blacks. I found them difficult to rear, 

 and after keeping them two or three seasons 

 disposed of the lot to Mr. R. G. B. Chase, of 

 Birmingham. He kept them a few years and 

 bred one or two decent specimens. Eventually, 

 I believe, the stud passed into the hands of Mr. 

 Cetti, of Dudley. Since then I have neither 

 heard nor seen anything of them. 



The Domino has a masked head, similar 

 to the Modena. It has a frill and gullet, but 



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