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requires the attention of Turkish breeders to enable them to eradicate 

 foul underbody in their pigeons, and they certainly require it. 



The irides in coloured headed Turkish frilled pigeons should be orange, 

 in white headed ones they should be dark hazel, as in our turbits. 

 Turbiteens, when heavily head marked, have sometimes orange eyes, 

 which look very well. Many, however, have broken irides, which are 

 decidedly faulty. 



As regards the frill on the breast, the Turkish varieties are about on a 

 par witli our turbits and owls. They are certainly not on an average 

 better than them. In this beautiful and distinctive property, much, 

 therefore, remains to be done for them, if we are to take the frill of the 

 whiskered owl as our standard. 



The Satinette. 



This beautiful variety is grouse-legged, and usually smooth headed, 

 though a tew have lately been imported with peaked crests. It is coloured 

 shouldered and tailed, and the rest of its plumage ought to be white. 

 As for its wing marking, it ought to be similar to that of the turbit, and 

 foul underbody, coloured 'primary flights, white secondaries, and white 

 wing butts are all aa faulty in it as in the turbit. In addition to the 

 colour of the satinette proper, there are several others found in the 

 breed, some of which have received special names, while it would have 

 been less contusing to have retained the generic name for all, prefixing a 

 word to distinguish them, as, for instance, blue satinette, instead of 

 bluette. 



The satinette is an old breed, according to Mr. Caridia, who says he 

 baa traced it back for 120 years, through three generations of fanciers. 

 When he wrote the account of it in Mr. Fulton's book about five years 

 ago, he said that an aged Presbyter in Smyrna, then upwards of eighty 

 years of age, had bred them all his life, and that his father and grand- 

 father had done so before him. The ground colour of the shoulders of 

 this pigeon, after it has cast its nest feathers, should be of clear pink 

 brown, or nearly of a flesh colour, each feather being laced round with 

 lustrous purple black, or the same with an inner lacing of reddish brown, 

 making the plumage tri-ooloured. This is what I consider the most beau- 

 tiful marking ; but it is not the only one. Some of them are chequered at 

 the extremity of each shoulder feather with a triangular or arrow pointed 



