. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 387 Divisions of the Asiatic meat type. The modern classification of Asiatic fowls makes three breeds, — Brahma, Cochin, and Lang- shan,— the order of mention being in accord with the relative popularity of the breeds when the type was most popular. With reference to the (supposed) original type of fowl the Cochin and Langshan are earlier forms, the comb and some other characters of the Brahma indicating Asiatic Game blood which undoubtedly mingled with the other race from time to time. Cochins. Early
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 387 Divisions of the Asiatic meat type. The modern classification of Asiatic fowls makes three breeds, — Brahma, Cochin, and Lang- shan,— the order of mention being in accord with the relative popularity of the breeds when the type was most popular. With reference to the (supposed) original type of fowl the Cochin and Langshan are earlier forms, the comb and some other characters of the Brahma indicating Asiatic Game blood which undoubtedly mingled with the other race from time to time. Cochins. Early Ameri- can and English Cochins comprised four colors of the Asiatic type, and (in at least one of these colors) a variety of shades. The Buff Cochin, developed from the most common and popular color of the Shanghai or Malay, was, until near the close of the last century, bred and shown in all shades of buff, from a lemon-yellow to a brown called cinnamon- buff. In these Buff Cochins were found, as nowhere else among the fowls that came to the notice of early American fanciers, the gradations of color from the black-red of the initial type to white. The Pheasant or Partridge Cochin retained the black-red coloration, with the brown colors of the female arranged in lacings, — a pattern which seems to have been developed in Asia, though not in the perfection in which it is now found in our exhibition stocks of varieties carrying the pattern. At the lower end of the scale of Asiatic colors was the White Cochin; at the upper end, the Black Cochin, commonly called the Java. Of these varieties the Buff was, from the first, most popular, the. Fig. 381. Buff Cochin cockerel. (Photograph by Eugene J. Hall, Oak Park, Illinois). 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), 1863-1
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