. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 52. Partridge Wyandotte pullet the race as a whole was notbecame more widely popular. 62 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS Although the formation of this race began about 1850 (per-haps earlier), it was fifty years before it became known outsideof the limited area in which it was almost the only type to be , the first birds of this race to attract the attention ofthe public were exhibited about 1890 as Buff Plymouth Rocksand Buff Wyandottes. At that time very few of the RhodeIsland Reds were as dark in color as the average specimen now
. Our domestic birds; elementary lessons in aviculture . Fig. 52. Partridge Wyandotte pullet the race as a whole was notbecame more widely popular. 62 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS Although the formation of this race began about 1850 (per-haps earlier), it was fifty years before it became known outsideof the limited area in which it was almost the only type to be , the first birds of this race to attract the attention ofthe public were exhibited about 1890 as Buff Plymouth Rocksand Buff Wyandottes. At that time very few of the RhodeIsland Reds were as dark in color as the average specimen now seen in the showroom,and buff specimens werenumerous. Birds with rosecombs, birds with singlecombs, birds with pea combs,and birds with intermediatetypes of comb could oftenbe found in the same it was not a very difficultmatter, among many thou-sands of birds, to pick outsome that would pass forBuff Plymouth Rocks andsome that would pass forBuff Wyandottes. Thesevarieties were also made inother wavs, mostlv bv vari-. Fig. 53. Columbian Wyandottes. (Photo-graph from R. G. Richardson. Lowell,Massachusetts) ous crosses with the Buff Cochin, but for some years breederscontinued to draw on the Rhode Island supply. Some people in the Rhode Island district thought that abreed which could thus furnish the foundation for varieties oftwo other breeds ought to win popularity on its own merits. Sothey began to exhibit and advertise Rhode Island Reds. At firstthey made little progress, but as the breed improved, manymore people became interested in it, and soon it was one of themost popular breeds in the country. The modern exhibitionRhode Island Red is of a dark brownish red in color. FOWLS 63 The American idea in England ; the Orpington. At the timethat the Chinese fowls were attracting wide attention in Americaand England some were taken to other countries of Europe. Inalmost every country they had some influence upon the nativestock, but as each of the old countries had one or
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