Tiirkish Frilled Pigeons. 239 



The upper mandible is generally coloured in turbiteens, or at least 

 tipped, according to the feather, white or flesh coloured beaks being 

 exceptional. There ought to be no hard blue however, in the beaks of 

 blacks, reds, and yellows ; the black should have a black beak, the red 

 a ruddy brown one, and the yellow just enough colour in the beak to 

 make it show. 



I may here mention two other varieties of Turkish pigeons, though they 

 are not of the frill breasted, gulleted tribe. The first, only one pair 

 of which I have seen, were sent to Messrs. Baily and Son, from Smyrna, 

 among a lot of blondinettes and turbiteens. They were smooth headed, 

 grouse-legged, white pigeons, with round heads and short fine beaks like 

 the capuchins. They were marked on the forehead and cheeks somewhat 

 as turbiteens ought to be, and their flight feathers were coloured. These 

 markings were of a bronzed or kite black. 



The second variety is what are known as Red Indians. They come 

 from Asia Minor, and have nothing much to distinguish them in size, 

 shape, and form from common skinnums ; but their colour, which is of 

 deep glossy blood red, to the ends of the flight and tail feathers, is some- 

 times as good as can be found in any domestic pigeons. They have been 

 used in dragoon breeding, to give colour to reds and yellows. 



