. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 417. Fig. 430. Single-Combed Black Orpington cockerel. (Photograph from owner, W. E. Matthews, New London, Connecticut) and legs (black or flesh color). The typical Orpington is also a heavier-bodied bird, comparing with American birds of the type as do the English Minorcas and Leghorns with American types of those breeds. The color varieties are black, buff, white, variegated (the " Diamond Jubilee "), and spangled. In some varieties there are both rose- and single-combed subvarieties, as i
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 417. Fig. 430. Single-Combed Black Orpington cockerel. (Photograph from owner, W. E. Matthews, New London, Connecticut) and legs (black or flesh color). The typical Orpington is also a heavier-bodied bird, comparing with American birds of the type as do the English Minorcas and Leghorns with American types of those breeds. The color varieties are black, buff, white, variegated (the " Diamond Jubilee "), and spangled. In some varieties there are both rose- and single-combed subvarieties, as indicated in the following descriptions. Thus in the Orpington are combined the general form and both styles of comb found in fowls of the Amer- ican general-purpose type. Black Orpingtons (single- and rose-comb). This, the first variety of the Orpington, was said by the originator to have been produced by a series of crosses in which Black Plymouth Rocks, Black Minorcas, and clean-legged Black Langshans were used. English writers familiar with the variety in England assert that it shows Black Cochin blood more con- spicuously than anything else, and the appearance of many of the specimens shown in America sup- ports this view. The Cochin type, however, is not the exclusive type in the Black Orpington. Both the Langshan type and the long-bodied Plymouth Rock type are found. Consideration of such facts indicates that, whatever may have been true of the stock of the originator, the single-comb Black Orpington is at present a. 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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