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CLEAN LEG TUMBLERS. 



IT must not he suppostjd that the long faced elean legged 

 Tumbler is at all out of date. The lung faced clean-leg 

 has many admirers, and always will have. The clean- 

 legs run in solids (or selfs) Mottles, and Eosewings, White- 

 sides, Balds, Almonds, and there are also Gernum Beards, 

 and Danish Tumblers. 



In all colors, the eye should be pearl. The eye cere is jiale 

 and very narrow, and it should not be red, as this gives a 

 kind of coarse look to the head. 



MOTTLES. 

 A good Mottle has say twenty to thirty-live white feathers 

 in the wings, and slightly away from the butts, wliere they 

 stand clear and distinct. But a common fault is that they 

 run into the wing butts, and therefore spoil the finished ap- 

 pearance of the true mottle. These white feathers must not 

 run together, but be distinct. These white dots appear 

 again at the base of the neck and extend over the Ijack like 

 a triangle with the base next to the neck. 

 PvOSEWINGS. 

 In Kosewings the dots appear in a circle on the wings. 

 There should be about as many as on the wings of the Mot- 

 tle. In England some whites have lieen shown with the 

 rose-wing mark in black, but thej are scarce. 

 WHITESIDE.S. 

 Whitesides are another fancy variety. They should l)e 

 solid colored, but with the wing and the short flights all 

 white. Many of these birds are "made'' birds. They come 

 with colored feathers all through the wings, which are pull- 

 ed again and again till they come white. 



The "Whiteside is not a good bird to breed, for the reasons 

 given above. 



