. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TURKEYS, PEAFOWLS, GUINEAS, PHEASANTS 431 culture did it attract special attention. Since then it has become the leading variety, being extensively kept as a pure race and also every- where used to grade up inferior stocks. Crosses with wild stock are made at intervals by many breeders of Bronze Turkeys. In color the male and female are alike, except that the color tone of. Fig. 459. Bronze Turkey hen. (Photograph by Hall) the female is more sober. The soft feathers are dull black or bronze, the wide, nearly straight tips crossed wit
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TURKEYS, PEAFOWLS, GUINEAS, PHEASANTS 431 culture did it attract special attention. Since then it has become the leading variety, being extensively kept as a pure race and also every- where used to grade up inferior stocks. Crosses with wild stock are made at intervals by many breeders of Bronze Turkeys. In color the male and female are alike, except that the color tone of. Fig. 459. Bronze Turkey hen. (Photograph by Hall) the female is more sober. The soft feathers are dull black or bronze, the wide, nearly straight tips crossed with a wide black band, next to which, at the tip, is a narrower band of white. The different widths of these bands and of the bronze tints in different sections give varying color effects. The long feathers of the wings and tail are barred black, or brown, and white ; the tips of the tail feathers are banded like the body plumage. The Narragansett Turkey is probably most correctly described as a race produced by improvement of stock somewhat degenerated in domestication. It originated and has been bred chiefly in Rhode. 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 Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company
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