354 FANCY PIGEONS. 



lower quality, as judged by tlie Short-faced standard, than 

 Balds, and the only colours in existence at all good are the 

 blues and silvers. Mr. "Woodhouse has bred some of the best. 

 As for black, red, and yellow really Short-faced Beards, I 

 have never seen any. Beards ought to be marked exactly 

 the same as the flying ones. 



All Short-faced Tumblers of high quality have a difficulty 

 in shedding their flight and tail feathers during the moult. 

 The feathers will grow to their complete length without 

 bursting from their sheaths, and, if allowed to do so, their 

 fibres will rot. The upper skin of the feather should be 

 scraped off with the thumb nail as it continues to grow, and 

 the inside core of the feather carefully removed. By this 

 means the feathers may be preserved good. 



