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The Journal of Heredity 



BLOCKY FORM AND RUGGEDNESS CHARACTERIZED BY MALES OF SIMILAR 



BREEDING 



I his male is from pen 22, and is the one which headed pen No. 17 in 1914. Note the pure 

 white ear lobe. Compare with Figs. 8 and 10. (Fig. 13.) 



white in the majority of cases, showed 

 a considerable variation, ranging all the 

 way from birds showing more or less 

 black splashing or ticking to those 

 which were pure black in color with the 

 exception of a little white in wings. 

 Other colors which commonly occurred 

 were birds of poor I)omini(|iie markings 

 and birds which showed with this mark- 

 ing an admi.xtiire of buff or red. IVe- 

 quently also males were obtained which 

 showed red on saddle, back and shoul- 

 ders, and females which showed buff on 

 breast, frequently extending to hackle 

 and shoulders. In less frcciuint in- 

 stances offspring were obtaini'd showing 

 more or k'ss buff throughout the plimi- 

 age. It might be noted here that some 

 of these bull breasted temalis and red 



saddled males, which, it will be seen, 

 is much like the marking of Red Pyle 

 varieties, proved to be so attractive 

 that a pen of this sort has now been car- 

 ried for several years in an effort to fix 

 this particular marking. Another 

 marking frecpientK- obtained was gen- 

 eral body color api)roaching that t)f 

 poor Brown Leghorn markings on the 

 males or in some instances being largely 

 on the Wheaten Game color on the 

 females. 



Perhaps in the case of these males 

 the color nn'ght more properly be 

 called Black Red (lame markings 

 as many of these fowls have markings 

 which are in a measure similar to 

 the markings of our Brown Leg- 

 horn mails. .Some of these males in 



