. Standard varieties of chickens . o excel the French broad, deep, and projecting breast of the Dorking admirably fits 51 28 it for table purposes, and in this respect it is conceded by some torival the Indian Games. As layers the Dorkings are consideredrather indifferent, but they are careful sitters and attentive mothers. There are three varieties of Dorkings—the White, Silver Gray,and Colored. The White Dorking is really the purest blooded ofthe three, as for years this was the only variety which produced in-variably the fifth toe, although the Colored and Silver Gray varietie
. Standard varieties of chickens . o excel the French broad, deep, and projecting breast of the Dorking admirably fits 51 28 it for table purposes, and in this respect it is conceded by some torival the Indian Games. As layers the Dorkings are consideredrather indifferent, but they are careful sitters and attentive mothers. There are three varieties of Dorkings—the White, Silver Gray,and Colored. The White Dorking is really the purest blooded ofthe three, as for years this was the only variety which produced in-variably the fifth toe, although the Colored and Silver Gray varietiesseldom fail to breed this peculiarity. In color the White Dorkingis of clear, unblemished white. The comb and wattles are a brightred; the shanks and toes are white. Silver Gray Dorkings are beautiful in plumage. The head of thecock is silvery white; hackle, silvery white and as free from stripesas possible; comb, face, ear lobes, and wattles, bright red; beak,white, streaked with horn; eye. bright red; breast, thigh, and under. Fig. 13.—Pair of Silver Gray Dorkings. parts, black; back, saddle, and wing bows, pure silvery white; wingcoverts, greenish black; primaries, black, edged with white; second-aries, black on upper web, white on lower web, with a black spotat the end of each feather; tail, greenish glossy black; shanks, feet,and toe nails, white. The eye, beak, comb, face, wattles, shanks, feet,and toe nails of the hen are the same as in the cock; head, silverywhite; hackle, silvery white, clearly striped with black; breast, sal-mon red, shading off to gray in the lower parts; back, wing bows, andwing coverts, bright silver gray, with minute pencilings of dark grayon each feather, the shafts of the feathers being white; primaries,upper web dark slate, lower web slaty gray; secondaries, same asprimaries; tail, dark, penciled with gray on outside and dark slateon inside. 51 29 Colored Dorkings differ from the others only in color, the generalcolor of the male being bla
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