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so as to form the hood, the chain, and the mane, a fourth property — the rose — is 

 produced. This, if well developed, is a point of great beauty ; its degree of per- 

 fection always corresponds to that of the three preceding properties. 



" The Jacobine should have a clean white head, the white being sharply defined 

 or closely cut, and there should not be any white whatever under the beak. The 

 rump, tail, and flight should be perfectly white, but I do not agree with those 

 fanciers who consider the bird should be clean or white-thighed, as when it is so it 

 carries too much of the Baldhead Tumbler in its appearance. The Jacobine should 

 have a bright pearl eye set in a neat finely-shaped head ; a fine white beak, with 

 small wattle. It should be a small pigeon, free from coarseness ; the weight of a 

 good pair not exceeding twenty-four ounces. The wing should droop slightly, not 

 sufficiently so to drag on the ground, but only to give it the low carriage peculiar 

 to this elegant variety." 



Formerly, many of the best birds were feather- footed, but at the present time the 

 standard of the English fanciers imperatively demands that they should be "clean- 

 legged," or free from feathers on both feet and legs. On the Continent feather- 

 footed Jacobines are still esteemed, and they are sometimes shown with tufts over 

 the beaks like the Trumpeter ; and entirely black and other self-coloured varieties 

 are also reared. 



