THE PIGEOX STANDAKD. 77 



THE ICE PIGEON. 



Some are spangled on a very pale blue ground, others ai'e 

 laced, some neither the one nor the other; but in all cases 

 the wing bars are very gracefully edged with a black or blue 

 trimming. The flight and tail feathers are more or less dark, 

 with a dark bar across the tip of the tail. The eyes are iiery 

 red, surrounded by the thinnest of eye ceres; the beak is 

 slender and jet black. The Ice pigeon is sometimes clean 

 legged, sometimes heavily foot feathered. 

 THE PRIEST. 



In plumage the ground color is of all shades, the blue be- 

 ing most common, but reds, blacks, yellows and silvers are 

 frequently met with, and now and again very prettily spangled 

 and chequer-shoulder specimens are seen. The markings 

 consist of white skulls or "pates;" the line of separation 

 between the body color and the crown of the head is from a 

 point where the mandibles meet, passing in clean-cut fashion 

 on a line with the lower part of the eye cere, and rising to 

 the base of the crown of the head at the back. The upper 

 mandible is white, the under one of a dai'k color. The wing 

 bars in all colors are snow white, in some specimens the bar 

 across the tip of the tail is also white. The Priest is shell- 

 crested, the shell extending from ear to ear; the eyes are 

 black or "bull eyed;" it is grouse muffed on the legs to the 

 instep of the foot. The principal feature of the Priest is, 

 however, its na^al ivft; this is a cluster of feathers just over 

 the wattle, growing the reverse way to those of any other 

 variety of pigeons: these feathers are long, very soft, and 

 curl close and tightly above each other. 

 THE LATZ. 



The I-atz has a shell crest; it is white in body plumage, 

 with the exception of the head, bib, chest and tail, which 

 are black, red or yellow, etc. The most remarkable feature 

 of the Latz is the posse.ssion of a long chain of loose reversed 

 feathers extending from the crest down each side of the neck ; 

 the eyes are pearl colored, and the feet free from feathering. 

 THE TIGER. 



The reason for its ferocious name is its striped plumage 

 covering. Foot feathering is very profuse, some of the longer 

 feathers measuring fully five inches, and evenly overlapping 

 each other. Lines of dark feathers should spread in more or 

 less regular formation all over the white ground color; the 

 flight feathers, both lesser and major, as well as those of the 

 tail, should be alternately white and dark in shade, this 

 arrangement of color extending tjspecially to the foot feath- 

 ering. Tigers are shell crested. 



