380 FANCY PIGEONS. 



white tips, causing the shoulders to appear nearly white ; 

 nights, black, with white tips. Face, '93 ; length, 13. Weight, 

 lOoz. 



SIDAM BAJINI. Female. Beak, dusky ; eyes, orange-yellow ; 

 head, neck, and breast, dark, with bronze lustre; shoulders, 

 creamy white, tinged with red, and some feathers ticked with 

 black ; rump, ashy black, lustred with green ; flights, creamy 

 white and black mixed, darker towards their ends, and having 

 signs of a white tip ; tail, blue-black, with dark bar. Face, 1*13 ; 

 length, 11-6. Weight, 8oz. 



BALDAK (a Ladder ; in allusion to the marks on the wings). 

 Female. Beak, greyish black; eyes, light pink; small frontal 

 tuft ; colour, dusky blue, with white wing bars. Face, 1 ; 

 length, 12-1. Weight, 8'3oz. 



BORGHUL. Female. A great novelty. Mandibles, dusky; 

 eyes, dark straw colour. In each feather of the head there is 

 black, white, and almond-yellow, well broken ; the neck feathers 

 show most of the black colour. Breast lustred with purple ; the 

 belly a darker shade, but the feathers tricolour, with a bronze 

 lustre; shoulders, white, with ruddy edges and black base; 

 flights, light at base ; quills, black, the ends dark, with white 

 and almond tips ; rump, black and white, with but little almond 

 colour; tail feathers mostly black. Face, 1'13; length, 11*3. 

 Weight, 8oz. 



It will be seen from the foregoing interesting descriptions 

 that there are still many curious pigeons in the possession of 

 Asiatic fanciers that we know very little about. I mentioned, 

 in the first chapter of the first edition of this book, written 

 about 1878, that we might still expect to get something new 

 from Central Asia and China. 



