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the edge with reddish brown or clear yellow. These varieties fall away 

 in colour in tail and flights. I have not seen eimilarly shouldered 

 satinettes, but should suppose they could be bred. There are black and 

 white laced blondiuettes, in which the head, neck, and underbody 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 

 estremities. 



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. 



I have stated, when writing of the German shield pigeons, that 

 some are spangled, marbled, or chequered on the shoulders, with two or 

 three colours, like some of the Eastern friUed and Modena pigeons. 

 I omitted to state that such pigeons, though classed in Germany, accord- 

 ing to Neumeister, among the shields, are generally dark in colour where 

 the turbit marked shields are white. They are known in this country 

 as hyacinths, and may have some connection with the French hyacinth 

 and its sub-varieties ; but the pair I have succeeded in obtaining are in 

 no way diiferent in size, form, style of head and beak, and in medium 

 feathered legs and feet, from common Birmingham rollers. In colour 

 they are dark purple blue with black barred tail, their shoulders being 

 of a prevailing flesh-coloured tint, each feather in the cock being laced 

 round with black, while the hen is of the arrow-pointed marking, showing 

 a strong bluish colour on the chequers. Their young ones are of both 

 types and no two are exactly alike. In their nest feathers they look 

 like dull blue chequers with a reddish-brown cast on the shoulders, their 

 bright colour only appearing when they moult. The only difference in 

 colour between these pigeons and the satin blondinettee, is the absence of 

 the white spots or finch marks on the primary flight and tail feathers, which 

 are, however, found on varieties of the German priest pigeon. There ia 

 nothing, therefore, in the satinette and its relative, the blondinette, that 

 is not found in other varieties of the domestic pigeon ; but they combine 



