. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 440 POULTRY CULTURE initial type of fowl. While it is entirely possible that this variety has been developed direct from the Mallard, it is much more prob- able that it was developed, by long-continued selection for table qualities, from common ducks of the same color, just as the fowls of the European meat type were developed from mongrel fowls. The type was developed especially in the north of France, and takes its name from the city of Rouen.^ The body color of the male is gray ; the back is quite dark, with a greenish coat, or sheen,
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 440 POULTRY CULTURE initial type of fowl. While it is entirely possible that this variety has been developed direct from the Mallard, it is much more prob- able that it was developed, by long-continued selection for table qualities, from common ducks of the same color, just as the fowls of the European meat type were developed from mongrel fowls. The type was developed especially in the north of France, and takes its name from the city of Rouen.^ The body color of the male is gray ; the back is quite dark, with a greenish coat, or sheen, becoming darker green near the tail; the under parts are very much lighter, the un- der sides of the wings and some of the feathers under the wings be- ing white; the breast is claret- colored ; the head and the upper part of the neck are green, a white ring separat- ing the green from the body and breast colors, which extend to the lower part of the neck ; the tail and wings show mixed gray and brown, with some green; the wing when folded shows a rich blue-green bar (called the " ribbon ") with narrow white bars on either side. The female has penciled brown plumage, the general color tone of which is strikingly like that of the females in black-red types of fowls, and has the same blue-green and white bars seen on the male. A variety ' This is the view of most of the earlier writers, and considering the nearness of that town to Paris, the great poultry market, and the custom of giving names of towns or districts to poultry for which they became celebrated, there seems no good reason for the efforts of later writers to make the name a corruption of "Rhone" or ";. Fig. 468. Cayuga Ducks. (Photograph by E. J. Hall). 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, Jo
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