'i8 THE PIGEON STANDARD. 



THE FRILLBACK. 



It is dove headed, thin in eye cere and wattle, slender in 

 beak, cobby in build ; but very evenly grouse muffed on the 

 legs, and possesses a most remarkable arrangement of evenly 

 reversed feathers all over the wing covering and saddle of 

 the back; these feathers increase in the amount of frilling 

 from the shoulders to the coverts of the lesser flights, in the 

 former evenly arranged curls falling one over the other in 

 most symmetrical fashion. Frillbacks are of all colors, from 

 jiurc whites to jet blacks. 



THE SPOT SWALLOW. 



Similarly marked on the wings and flights to the. Swallowj 

 but no dark feathers "covering the crown of the head. It has 

 a spot or "snip" of black or dark shaded feathers over the 

 wattle on the front of the face, instead of the "cap" covering 

 the head. In addition to the shoulders being of dark color, 

 the whole of the lengthy foot feathering should also be of the 

 same color as the shoulder marking. Of whatever shoulder 

 color Spot Swallows may be, the wing bars, excepting those 

 with spangled shoulders, must be snow white and very clearly 

 defined in bar edging. Some are spangled or laced on the 

 wing coverts ; if so, the flight feathers should each be tipped 

 with an oval white spot. The eyes are dark in color, and 

 the upper mandible either black or horn color, according to 

 the lighter or darker shade of the wing color plumage. 



THE SHIELD. 



Its shoulder covering should be dark in color, on an other- 

 wise completely white-feathered body. The Shield is shell 

 crested and possesses a wonderful amount of foot feathering, 

 white in color, very lengthy in proportion, and regularly 

 overlapping one feather over the other. 



THE FLORENTINE. 



Very long in legs, short in toes, long and swan-like even 

 to excess in neck, and short and cooked in tail, like Jenny 

 Wren, short and roundish in body, and very prominent in 

 chest, rather coarse shaped and long in head and beak; the 

 ilight feathers are short and carried well over the i-ump to- 

 wards the uprising tail ; in plumage it is of all colors, though 

 whole whites, blacks and mottled blacks are the most com- 

 mon. They sometimes have a peculiar distorted and tremu- 

 ous action. 



