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dusky. Two Silvers paired, the black bars on 

 the wings of their issue will deteriorate — the 

 blackness fading into a rusty brown, which 

 give birds a shabby washed out appearance. 

 Match the two colours together, and you correct 

 the faults in each. The blue imparts density 

 to the bars on the silver wing. The silver 

 communicates the delicate soft tone to the body- 

 colour of the blue. Mr. Woodhouse's strain 

 ranks the best amongst Blues and Silvers. 



Reds and Yellows 

 are rarely met with possessing high-class short- 

 faced qualities. These do better when crossed 

 similar to Blues and Silvers. The colour flies 

 in Yellows when bred together for a few genera- 

 tions ; in fact, they almost become colourless. 

 Rich deep Yellows owe their heightened colour- 

 ing to the Red jackets of their mates. 



A name worthy of note, and inseparably asso- 

 ciated with the Red Baldhead, is that of Mr. E. 

 Burchatt of Croydon, an enthusiastic breeder of 

 this charming variety. Mr. Burchatt bred his 

 birds in and in for many years, and succeeded 

 in producing a strain almost perfect as far as 

 colour and markings were concerned. But his 

 birds failed in carriage, eye, and head, till he in- 



