OCCASIONAL SINGLE COMB SEGREGATES 



For some years occasional single comb segregates have been noticed in this standard-hred 

 family of White Wyandottes. Any comb other than rose is a disqualification in Wyandottes. 

 (Fig. 10.) 



the Mediterranean class, all seem to 

 have originated around the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea. They are all nervous, active 

 birds, stylish and sprightly in appear- 

 ance, somewhat lacking in the brooding 

 instinct and are layers of white eggs. 



The breeds which comprise the Amer- 

 ican class are the familiar Plymouth 

 Rock, Wyandotte, and Rhode Island 

 Red, and the less familiar Java, Buck- 

 eye, and Dominique. These breeds 

 were developed in America through a 

 judicious blending of Asiatic and Medi- 

 terranean blood lines followed by 

 rigid selection. In most characteristics 

 they fall about half-way between the 

 two general types from which they 

 arose. 



The grouping of breeds into classes 

 may have no other basis than that of 

 convenience, or as in the case of the 

 "Miscellaneous" class, which is com- 

 posed of three rather curious breeds, 



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namely, Silkies, Sultans, and Frizzles, 

 because they do not seem to fit any- 

 where else. 



A complete list of chickens, turkeys, 

 dtlcks, and geese, as recognized by the 

 American Poultry Association and 

 listed in the American Standard of Per- 

 fection, includes fifteen classes, sixty 

 breeds, and one hundred and forty-nine 

 varieties. Of these, twelve classes, 

 forty-two breeds, and one hundred and 

 twenty-one varieties are of chickens. 

 There are eleven breeds of ducks, 

 grouped in one class, and subdivided 

 into fifteen varieties. The six breeds 

 of geese are grouped as one class, only 

 one of the breeds having twO' varieties. 

 Turkeys are all of the same shape and 

 so all along to the same breed, as well 

 as to the same class. The breed is di- 

 vided into six varieties on the basis of 

 color, there also being in this case size 

 differences between the varieties. 



