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laced Blondinettes, in whicli the head, neck, and under body 

 are black, the wings, flights, and tail being white, strongly 

 laced with black, dark towards the wing butts, and gradually 

 lighter towards the tail, according to the size of the 

 feathers. 



The Blue Blondinette is of the colour of a blue pigeon, 

 with tricoloured wing bars and white- spotted tail, the same 

 as in the blue Satinette. Its primary flights ought also to 

 have white oval spots on their extremities. 



The Silver Blondinette differs from the blue, exactly the 

 same as these colours differ from each other in the Satinettes. 

 There are also whole dark dun Blondinettes, with white wing 

 bars, and spotted tail and flight feathers. 



The Domino Pigeon. 



The Domino is peak-headed, smooth-legged, coloured on 



shoulders and tail, and is marked on the head like a Nun. 



The colour of the head includes the peak crest, and comes low 



down in front, forming a bib. I have only seen one specimen 



of this variety, and I believe it is the only one of the pure 



original race which has appeared in this country. Its marking 



resembled that of my drawing of the Triganica Pigeon, except 



the flight feathers, which were white. It was imported by Mr. 



Oaridia, and was shown very successfully by Mr. Tardley, of 



Birmingham. It was blue in colour, with the usual black 



wing and tail bars. In a letter published in 1879, Mr. Caridia 



•stated that the Dominoes, "though very scarce now, were in 



colours, blacks, blues, silvers with bars, duns without bars, 



and chequers of all these colours. There were also a few 



without the crest, and I possessed there [in Smyrna] some of 



these which were perfection." The bird I have referred to 



was of grand Owl properties, and its colour and marking 



were so good, that I venture to think, were such birds to be 



imported, they would take the fancy of pigeon breeders in this 



country before any of the other Turkish frilled pigeons. They 



