APPENDIX. 



dark horn, the lower mandible white. Eye, dark brown, dark 

 ruby, and orange. Cere, pale flesh. White body, tail flights, 

 and legs. Colored head-markings and shoulders. They are 

 usually found very foul thighed, but this should be considered 

 an imperfection. Head-markings should consist of three equal- 

 sized spots, the frontal one commencing at the wattle and cover- 

 ing the forehead , heart-shaped ; the cheek spots should extend from 

 the base of the lower mandible, imder the eye to the ear, forming 

 a crescent-shaped oval. There should be a distinct white line 

 running from beak to eye, dividing the frontal and cheek spots. 

 Birds with front spot only are admissible. The gullet should 

 be white, dividing the cheek marks. 



ORIENTAL TURBITS. 



Blacks , Blues , Silvers , Reds , Yellows , Duns , Chequers , and Cream- 

 ies. Each sort should have the sides and shoulders marked in perfect 

 elliptical form, with their respective colors deep, rich, and pure. 

 All else should be white , as in our English turbit . There are , however , 

 two kinds (both admissible as show birds), viz.: white-tailed, and 

 rfarft -tai led , the latter sort being the more numerous; but the white 

 tails are supposed to have been the original. 



