. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 357 not to be compared in beauty of color with the exhibition female. The Standard female has a ground color of light brown, with black tail, dark-brown flight feathers, a fine stippling of dark brown on the back and wings, the breast salmon and the hackle orange yellow with black stripe. The male of the same breeding is very much lighter in color than the exhibition male, — a lighter red, usually with less striping in the hackle and saddle, and the black of the breast and body more or less mottled or
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 357 not to be compared in beauty of color with the exhibition female. The Standard female has a ground color of light brown, with black tail, dark-brown flight feathers, a fine stippling of dark brown on the back and wings, the breast salmon and the hackle orange yellow with black stripe. The male of the same breeding is very much lighter in color than the exhibition male, — a lighter red, usually with less striping in the hackle and saddle, and the black of the breast and body more or less mottled or bronzed with red. In reality the Brown Leghorn has two color vari- eties, dark and light. The Standard describes the male of the dark and the female of the light variety, and these are shown together in the exhi- bition pen. They are chosen, not as matching in color, like the exhibition Barred Plymouth Rocks, but as show- ing the finest color develop- ments in the different sexes. Brown Leghorns are some- times bred to secure standard specimens of both sexes from the same mating, and when so bred, in time give a third intermediate color variety, specimens of which often closely approximate Standard requirements, though in general they have little chance of winning in competition with birds of the other lines. Biiff Leghorns (single-comb and rose-comb). That among early importations of Leghorns there were more of the yellow, or buff, than of the brown-red shade seems certain, though little interest was taken in them at that time. Buff Leghorns were shown under that name in America in 1867, more than twenty years before the modern Buff Leghorn began to be developed in England, but they made so little impression that the variety soon disappeared, and even the fact of their existence was forgotten until records of their. Fig. 343. Rose-Comb Brown Leghorn cockerel. (Photograph from owner, W. W. Kulp, Pottstown, Pennsylvania). Please note that these images are extracted from scann
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