192 I'lGKoNS AND ALL AlJoUT TllEil. 



BALDIIEA])S. 



The 15aldlie;id gets its uame fruin its white head. The 

 line starts fiuiu the thick jiart of the lower beak, just misses 

 the eye, and goes around the back of the head at the same 

 angle. 



To make the Bald nicjru beautiful, the liead should be nice- 

 iy rounded. The ten laige flights should be white. The 

 lower part of the body is white from a line just below the 

 wing butts. 



BEARDS. 

 Tlie Beard is thus inailcevl. The body except the liiglits 

 and tail is solid, .lust under the lower beak is a white 

 patch, that extends just under the eye. It is something like 

 a half moon, with the two horns extending to the eye or a 

 little under it. This "beard'' is sometimes called a "chuck," 

 but that is only a kind of slang terra for it. It is needless to 

 say that tlie shajie of this beard is often "assisted" by fan- 

 ciers. The exactly proper Beard, has ten white flights, 

 thougli a. bird with only eight is tolerated. 



Otherwise good birds are apt to sliow fi ml feathers about 

 the thighs and hocks, and tliis seems tu be rather more the 

 case in Beards and Baldt than in other marked Tumlilers. 

 (iEiaiAX BEAKDS. 

 (ierman Beards are longer in the liead and beak than the 

 English birds, but are tight feathered trim birds, that do 

 good work in the air. 



The Ijeak is a pale tlesli, in all the colors, the eye a pearl, 

 and the head round, though as stated, rather long. 



Good autliorities say that in mating for color in Beards it 

 is uot well to cross the colors, but rather to mate straight for 

 the color desired. 



