. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 5o8 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 5U. Stylish Single-Combed Brown Leghorn cockerel^ these the male is roughly de- scribed as having a black breast, body, and tail, with a red back, and the female as brown. When details of color are examined the males are found to vary in the shade of red, the narrow red feathers of neck, hackle, and saddle being sometimes striped with black, and the red and black in the wings being regularly distributed, the longest flight feathers nearly black, and red or brown appearing usually in a distinct line along the oute
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 5o8 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 5U. Stylish Single-Combed Brown Leghorn cockerel^ these the male is roughly de- scribed as having a black breast, body, and tail, with a red back, and the female as brown. When details of color are examined the males are found to vary in the shade of red, the narrow red feathers of neck, hackle, and saddle being sometimes striped with black, and the red and black in the wings being regularly distributed, the longest flight feathers nearly black, and red or brown appearing usually in a distinct line along the outer edge of the narrower outer web of each flight feather, or in irregular and less distinct patches in the broader inner web. In the secondaries the black is found regularly on the inner web, not quite covering it; the red, on the outer web and quill, and extending a little way on the inner web. The wing coverts are black, the wing bows red. In the darker varieties, as the Cornish Indian Game and the Redcap, the black tends strongly to encroach on the red areas. In the lighter varieties, as in the pullet-breeding Brown Leghorn males, the red tends strongly to encroach on the black. The object of the fancier is to keep the different colors distributed as exactly as possible in accordance with the Standard specifications. In the females of the black-red color type are found two styles of distribu- tion of color. On the Brown Leghorn there is no regular pattern, but the dark brown appears as a fine, even stippling on the back and wings (except where there is black in the male), while the breast is a redder brown and the under part of the body an ashy brown. In females of the other varieties the Standard calls for a light brown or bay ^ Owned by Grove Hill Poultry Yards, Waltham, Massachusetts. Photograph by Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illus
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