. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. nished with properly developed saddlehackles. THE GOLD Plumage.— Head and Neck-hackle: Rich gold,and not washed-out yellow. Remaindey of Plumage :Ground colour rich gold, and barring pure blackwith rich beetle-green sheen, and marldngs as in theSilver. SCALE OF POINTS Marldngs .. 30 Colour : neck-hackle, 12 ; sheen, 10 Size . 10 Condition 10 Tail (development and carriage). 8 Comb 5 Eyes . 5 Lobes. 5 Legs and feet s 100 Serious dejects : Even barring ; pencilled groundcolour ; sprigs on comb ;
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. nished with properly developed saddlehackles. THE GOLD Plumage.— Head and Neck-hackle: Rich gold,and not washed-out yellow. Remaindey of Plumage :Ground colour rich gold, and barring pure blackwith rich beetle-green sheen, and marldngs as in theSilver. SCALE OF POINTS Marldngs .. 30 Colour : neck-hackle, 12 ; sheen, 10 Size . 10 Condition 10 Tail (development and carriage). 8 Comb 5 Eyes . 5 Lobes. 5 Legs and feet s 100 Serious dejects : Even barring ; pencilled groundcolour ; sprigs on comb ; legs other than leadenblue ; white in face ; red eyes ; feather or fluff onshanks. A breed known as Gueldrcs or Bredas, theformer name being given to the Cuckoo variety,has long been known in Belgium, the Nether-lands, and some parts of northern^^ ^^ France. It was much praised by Gueldres. ^^?. J^^que and other early French writers, and was introduced intoEngland by Mr. Geyelin and Mr. Schroder, inthe days of the disastrous National PoultryCompany. It was also at one time considerably. Fig. 133.—Head of Breda Cock. bred in the United States ; but appears to havelost ground of late years everywhere, beingelbowed out, on the Continent as well as here,by more recent favourites. The breed has asmall crest, and slightly feathered rather short 61 legs, but its chief peculiarity is an entire ab-sence of comb, there being instead a depressionin the red skin just over the cavernous nostrils,and behind the barest little ridge of 133 shows this formation, and the entirehead of a Breda fowl, as drawn by M. Jacqueso far back as 1864. The breed is reportedas hardy, good in flesh, and a fairly goodlayer, but not much of a sitter. (See also p. 483.)We are indebted to Mr. Edward Brown,, who has travelled much upon theContinent, for the following notes and de-scriptions of the following other breeds inBelgium and Russia. The leading variety of Belgian fowls fortable purpose
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