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in the American Pigeon Journal he explains how he made the 

 Silver King. The following is copied from his article: "By 

 crossing the Mondaine with the Homer and the Runt with the 

 Maltese and then mating these two crosses together we obtained 

 the Silver King— a short blocky silver colored bird. In choosing 

 the different crosses I always took the bird with the silver 

 color and discarded ott colors that would crop out such as blues, 

 etc. The Silver King has certain good qualities from each of 

 the varieties it is made up of, — from the Homer and Mondaine, 

 fast breeding; from the Maltese short blocky and broad breast; 

 from the Hunt, size." 



The author has been very fortunate in securing several ex- 

 cellent photos of this new variety and they sliow very clearly 

 what an attractive bird the Silver King is. 



In shape or type the standard calls for the same in the Silvers 

 as it tloes for the Whites. Of course coloring in the Silvers is 

 entirely ditterent with tlie exception of the wattle, cere, shanks 

 and toes. The eye of the Silver King is pearl and the beak 

 horn color. 



The plumage of tlie Silver King is a beautiful silver blue 

 leaning to a delicate fawu color and should show as little con- 

 trast as possible in shade of back, breast, wings and tail. The 

 neck has a darker shade of fa^Aii and with a brilliant luster. 

 There are two sliarji and well dehned bars on the wings, such as 

 is seen in the Blue and Silver Runts, and one dark bar across the 

 tip of the tail. 



In weight the White and Silver Kings should be the same. 



The American King Cluli has its headquarters at Augusta, 

 Ga., with F. Arthur Hazard as Secretary, and any information 

 concerning the official standard for this breed will be gladly 

 furnished. 



