Judging Owls. 
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The mixed-coloured birds — such as those with the body one colour and tail another — can 
only be got with much patience and caie, unless the breeder has something near the mark to start 
from. The only way would be to cross the two whole colours together, till something like the 
desired result was obtained, though of course in the meantime many splashed and foul-marked 
birds will appear. 
JUDGING OWLS. — Considering as we do that the properties of both English and Foreign 
Owls should be the same, while the Foreign is as a rule so greatly superior, we could only give a 
prize to the larger bird where there was but one open class, if the Foreign birds were inferior in 
quality. Where they are classed separately, we would insist on the main distinction of size being 
kept up, and small birds not being allowed to win in an “ English ” class ; there is, as we have 
before explained, no inducement to enter large birds in a Foreign class, as the size would be so far 
against them. This premised, the follow ing scale of points will suit both varieties, the points for 
size being reckoned for largeness in the English class, and smallness in the Foreign : — 
POINTS IN JUDGING OWLS. 
Beak : shortness, 2 ; thickness, 1 ; shape, 2 ; colour, 1 . . . . . . .6 
Skull: roundness of profile, 4; width, 3 ......... 7 
Gullet : fulness and depth ............ 6 
Frill : quantity and regularity ........... 8 
Size : largeness or smallness . . .... ...... 3 
Shape and carriage of body ............ 3 
Colour of eyes .............. r 
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Colour points — Blues, 3 ; Silvers, 2 ; Powdered Blue, 5 ; Powdered Silver, 4 ; Colour of 
Bars, 3. 
