. Standard varieties of chickens . ghtorange to light red; the backis red or crimson; breast,white; body, white; shouldersand wing fronts, white; wingbows, red or crimson; wingcoverts, white, forming a dis-tinct bar across the wing; tailand tail coverts white. Thehead of hen golden red;hackle, white, edged with gold;back, white; breast, salmon; Fig. Duckwing Game cockerel. wings, white; tail, white. Shanks and feet of both cock and hen are yellow or willow—yellowpreferred. WHITE AND BLACK GAMES. These two varieties differ only in color from the others of theirbreed. The plumage of t
. Standard varieties of chickens . ghtorange to light red; the backis red or crimson; breast,white; body, white; shouldersand wing fronts, white; wingbows, red or crimson; wingcoverts, white, forming a dis-tinct bar across the wing; tailand tail coverts white. Thehead of hen golden red;hackle, white, edged with gold;back, white; breast, salmon; Fig. Duckwing Game cockerel. wings, white; tail, white. Shanks and feet of both cock and hen are yellow or willow—yellowpreferred. WHITE AND BLACK GAMES. These two varieties differ only in color from the others of theirbreed. The plumage of the White Game is a pure, spotless white;beak, shanks, and feet, yellow; comb, wattles, and ear lobes, Black Game is a lustrous black in plumage; beak, shanks, andfeet, black; comb, wattles, and ear lobes, deep red. ^ BIBCHEN GAMES. Birchen Games are silvery white and black; head and back aresilvery white; hackle and saddle of cock are silvery white, with anarrow dark or black stripe in center of each hackle and saddle 51. 39 feather; breast, black, each feather laced with silvery white; wingcoverts, glossy black; tail and thighs, black; shanks and feet, darkwillow or black; comb, wattles, and ear lobes, dark purple or black,The plumage of the hen is black, except that of the head, which issilvery white, and of the hackle, which is silvery white with a darkstripe down the center of each feather, and of the breast, the feathersof which are black, evenly laced with silvery white.
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