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satinette. It may be smooth headed or peak crested — the latter for 

 choice, as it is an additional property. The colour of its head will, of 

 course, be in accordance with that of its shoulders, viz., light blue in 

 the bluette, marked, and dark purple blue in the satin. Black headed 

 vizors, with black laced shoulders and tail, would look very well, and 

 will, no doubt, be produced if the Eastern fanciers are successful with 

 the blues and satins. 



The Tukbiteen. 



According to Mr. Caridia, it is now about thirty years since this 

 much admired variety was produced. He aays it is a composition of the 

 domino, white owl, and Oriental turbit ; but I cannot exactly under, 

 stand the method of breeding which was adopted. I understand from 

 his account that the Oriental turbit was marked as the British kind ; 

 and to employ a white owl "to counteract and balance the colour of 

 the black tail ' ' in the domino, appears a very roundabout process when 

 the turbit of Smyrna was itself white tailed. However, it seems a 

 misfortune that Smyrna turbits, marked as we want a turbit, with peak 

 crest and clean legs, and with the blazing colour and grand owl pro- 

 perties of some of the turbiteens, should have been allowed to disappear 

 in the desire for something new. Such pigeons would now be very 

 valuable. 



The turbiteen is generally smooth headed, and but very few peak 

 crested ones have been brought to this country. It is grouse-legged and 

 white in colour, marked as follows : — The shoulders should be coloured 

 exactly the same as in the British turbit. The head markings are by no 

 means well fixed in the breed, but are occasionally to be seen very good 

 according to the standard agreed on by fanciers, viz., a round coloured 

 spot on the forehead, commencing at the beak wattle and of about the 

 size of a shilling, and a similar spot on each cheek. There ought to be 

 a distinct white line between the forehead and cheek spots, and the throat 

 should be white dividing the cheek marks. The whole face and throat 

 is sometimes coloured in a heavily marked bird, which is faulty. 



The eyes should be orange for choice ; they are often broken in colour 

 — a serious fault. 



The turbiteen is exceedingly foul thighed in general, the only clean 

 thighed ones I ever saw being a few blacks that I bred myself ; but they 

 had white wing butts, which looked very bad. I have seen them with 



