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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



There are three varieties of Javas: Black, Mottled and White. The 

 Black (fig. 7) is more generally seen than the others, though the Mot- 



FiG. 7. —Pair of Black Javas. 



tied has of late years been very numerously represented at the shows. 

 The plumage of the Blacks is glossy black throughout; the Mottled (fig. 

 8) is of broken black and white in wings, tail and sickles, and the bal- 

 ance of the plumage is evenly intermixed with white and black; the, 

 White Java is, as the name implies, pure white throughout. It has a 



small single comb, standing upright on 

 the head in both male and female. The 

 shanks and toes are free from feathers, 

 yellow in color, with the bottom of feet 

 yellow. 



The standard weight of cocks is 

 nine and one half pounds; hens, seven 

 and one half pounds; cockerels, eight 

 pounds; and pullets, six and one half 

 pounds. 



DOMINIQUES. 



Similarity in plumage of the Amer- 

 ican Dominique and Barred Plymouth 

 Rock has been the price of the former's 

 popularity. The color is grayish-white, each feather regularly crossed 

 with parallel bars of blue-black, producing the effect of a bluish-tinged 

 plumage, the color being the same throughout. The illustration of 

 Barred Plymouth Rock feathers shown in fig. 2 will do equally as well 

 for the markings of the feathers of the Dominiques. They have rose 



Fig. 8.— Mottled Java hen. 



