. The new American poultry book, containing all the different varieties of fowls, with complete instructions ... Poultry. 6 BBAHMA FO^WX. slightly mottled with white. The feathers that cover the bases of the quill-feathers of the wings are of a liistrous green, black, and form a broad well-marked bar across the wings. The flight- fieathers are white on the outer and black on the inner webs.; The secondary quills haye a broad, dark, green black spot at the end of each feather. The tail is black. The shank should be of a yellow color, and well clothed with dark feathers slightly mot-, tied with
. The new American poultry book, containing all the different varieties of fowls, with complete instructions ... Poultry. 6 BBAHMA FO^WX. slightly mottled with white. The feathers that cover the bases of the quill-feathers of the wings are of a liistrous green, black, and form a broad well-marked bar across the wings. The flight- fieathers are white on the outer and black on the inner webs.; The secondary quills haye a broad, dark, green black spot at the end of each feather. The tail is black. The shank should be of a yellow color, and well clothed with dark feathers slightly mot-, tied with white. The hens have a grey head; nec£-hackle silvery white, striped with black. The comb is the same only of a smaller size. The remainder of the plumage should be dull white, and closely pen^ cilled with dark steel grey so as almost to cover the ground color and reaching well np the front of the neck. The hen is not so upright in carriage as the cock,, and it is much shorter in the legs. LIGHT UOHT BRAHMA Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Taggart, John. Philadelphia, Crawford & co
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