The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . lacksshould be pure, lustrous black, with black legs and dark pur-ple face, beak dark horn or black, eyes black or darkbrown. These two varieties could be made most attractiveIt attentiob were paid to them. 14 THK BANTAM FOWI,. Since that time, within five Bhort years, fanciers ofGame Bantams have produced and shown both pure WhiteGame Bantams with yellow shanks and pure Black GameBantams with black shanks, that have quite as much qualityin them as is seen in average
The bantam fowl; a description of all standard breeds and varieties of bantams, and of new breeds that are becoming popular .. . lacksshould be pure, lustrous black, with black legs and dark pur-ple face, beak dark horn or black, eyes black or darkbrown. These two varieties could be made most attractiveIt attentiob were paid to them. 14 THK BANTAM FOWI,. Since that time, within five Bhort years, fanciers ofGame Bantams have produced and shown both pure WhiteGame Bantams with yellow shanks and pure Black GameBantams with black shanks, that have quite as much qualityin them as is seen in average specimens of other varietiesof Game Bantams. The eyes of both these varieties shouldbe red; the plumage of each clear and true, withno foreign color in either. These are the results of breedingsports as above mentioned, the Whites to Piles and theBlack to Black Birchen females that have but little or nocolor, and they must possess the highest qualities as GameBantams or they have but little value. ASEEL GAME BANTAMS. These are of all colors, such as White, Black, Black-Red, Gray, and Spangled. They are fashioned very much. A PAIR OF WHITE ASEEL GAME BANTAMS. after the Malay type. Their necks are strong and muscular;legs short; plumage hard and short; thighs very strong andrather scantily feathered. The male weighs about twopounds. The female should resemble the male. Bar-lobesand wattles on both should be very small; back quitestraight, carriage upright. INDIAN GAME BANTAMS. These are just like the Indian Games, Laced andWhite. Indian Game Bantams originated with Mr. Entwisle,of England, who exhibited them there. We clip the followingcontribution from his pen to the Feathered World, En-gland: In passing we may here remark that the writer of thesepages, after years of labor, was the original producer of allthe varieties of Malay Bantams, Indian Game, and AseelBantams, and that to the best of his knowledge all thesevarieties now extant have sprung from the birds he breddown from
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