THE BALDHEAD. 



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Push the perverted fashion to extremities, 

 striving who shall get the highest cut bird in 

 the show-pen, and what have you for your 

 wasted pains ? Half a Beard and half a Bald. 

 In fact, a very high-cut Bald is a good Beard 

 spoilt. It is now quite time that fashion was 

 taken gently in hand and recovered to sanity 

 and beauty. Then this cutting question would 

 be at rest. This is the 

 ideal cut. 



The next thing desired 

 in the Baldhead is 



\s^o:- 



Clean Thighs. 

 In fact, all feathers on 

 the hinder parts must be 

 white — the thighs, the 

 rump, the vent, and the 

 tail. As the bird stands with its wings folded 

 not a coloured feather should be discernible in 

 these parts. Sometimes one thigh is of similar 

 colour to the body, sometimes both. This is 

 called foul-thighed, which is a grievous fault. 



The Pearl Eye 

 is another point to be carried. The iris round 

 the pupils should be of a silvery white or pearl 



