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over the shoulders and back. It ought to be full, and convex 

 in shape all round ; and the longer and fuller in feather a 

 bird is, the better it will be in this property. 



Rose. — Opposed to the theory that the perfect Jacobin 

 should have a clean division of the feathers at the back of 

 its neck, part growing forward, to form the hood and chain, 

 and part backward, to form, the tippet, is the fact, that on 

 each side of the neck the feathers grow out all round from 

 a centre, as on the head of the Trumpeter. The formation of 

 the rose may be well seen in a young bird as it gradually 

 feathers in the nest. When about three weeks old, the young 

 one which will become good when matured has a perfectly 

 formed rose on each side of its neck, the feathers at the top 

 of which become the mane. At maturity, the rose should 

 appear as an oval- shaped spot of white down, hollow in the 

 centre; in those colours which have a white under down to 

 the feather, as red and yellow. In blacks, the downy part 

 of the feather is not white, but of a medium tint ; but, 

 although the black cannot, therefore, have such a contrast 

 in colour between the chain and rose, the formation of the 

 latter should be correct. The formation of hood, chain, 

 tippet, and mane, may be all very good, and yet the rose 

 may be faulty from an awkward feather or two standing wp 

 in the centre of it, the removal of which would cause all to 

 look well. 



Mane. — The feathers forming the mane have no connection 

 with those of the hood, but grow from low down on each 

 side of the neck, being those which take an upward direction 

 from the centre, known as the rose. They ought to fall in 

 with the sweep of the hood and tippet, filling up the cavity 

 which, but for them, would exist. A good mane is difficult 

 to get, as, instead of its ridge being sharp and even, one 

 of the sides forming it often presses down the other, causing 

 a twisted mane ; or each side may force itself through the 

 other at some part, and so spoil the hogged appearance it 



