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Next to the Almond there was a strong fancy for many 

 years for Mottle Tumblers. The colours in these were 

 black, red, yellow, and one occasionally found duns. The 

 great difficulty that breeders of the Mottle have to con- 

 tend with is the uncertainty of the maikings. 



I am sorry to say that in my experience in this variety 

 I have seen a good deal of trimming so as to get the 

 desired evenness of rose. Really the only possible way 

 to get true Mottles evenly marked is by breeding to line 

 from birds with a good family history that come of a 

 good stock of evenly-marked birds. 



The Mottles, when good specimens are exhibited, are a 

 very taking variety, but difficult to breed true. 



The difference between the Short- Faced Tumbler and 

 the Long-Faced is in the shape of the head and skull. The 

 stop is more pronounced in the Short-Faced, and the beak, 

 of course, is more of the goldfinch type. So far as 

 colour and markings are concerned, what applies to one 

 variety applies to the other. It will be seen that Mr. 

 Williment deals with this subject in a very clear manner. 



The Long-Faced Tumbler,— By Albert Williment. 



One of the most popular varieties and the largest 

 family in Pigeondom is the Long- Faced Tumbler, which 

 originally derived its name from its peculiar acrobatic 

 performances whilst on the wing in mid-air. It is not 

 intended, however, in this article to deal with the class 

 known as Flying Tumblers, but with the present-day ex- 

 hibition Long- Faced Tumblers, which possess very little 

 or none of the flying propensity of their ancestors, having 

 been bred during the last twenty or thirty years purely 

 for show purposes only. 



The variety undoubtedly owes its success and ever- 

 increasing popularity to the fact that it can so easily be 



