i:4() riGEtlXS AND AI.I. AHOIT THEM. 



beak, legs clean from feather. The Aviugs au<l sides are uf a 

 tri-color with a triangular dart on oaeh feather. This mark- 

 ing also extends across the saddle. 



THK SUABIAN. 



This bird from lieiug so hard to breed true to marking, is 

 quite rare. They may have shells or peak crests, or be plain 

 heads. They may also be clean legged or muffed. 



They run black in color, with alight cre;;cent on breast and 

 running up to a ]ioint at Iiack of skull. Tlie Avings are 

 spangled, and the tail Idack with a. white band in the best 

 specimens. "While the dark liird is the be;-t, it is permissable 

 for them to run to light colors, but the marking in the lat- 

 ter case is of course not so attractive. 



CE PIGEONS. 

 These pretty birds come in four cnlors. They are short, 

 "squatty" birds, rather wild and sliy. Tliey run clean or 

 mutled legged. The eyes are dark, aud beaks bbiLk. Their 

 great point is a sort of powdery blue or lavender tint all over, 

 except in flights. All hiive light wing bars cxieept the laven- 

 der colored. Some are spangled or laced, and they can be 

 marked in so many different w-ays that it is hard to say 

 which is the proper idea. The lavendei bird has no bars ex- 

 cept the pale birds, which have bars tip])ed with a black 

 edging. The sptmgled liirds are particularly beautiful, but 

 hard to lireed correctly, and this is a facr common to nearly 

 all the \arietics of this ftiiuily of birds. 



THE CAIT'C'UIX. 



A^'EIIV pretty little jiigeon that is rarely seen and 

 especially iu this country is the Ca])uchin. It is of 

 tlie Oriental variety and is very small, erect in station, 

 and a nice, liright, clean-built little fellow all over. 



It has a broad shell-crest, which should conu' nicely around 



