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erect bearing of the tail. During the period that Game 

 cocks were bred for the cock-pit, the conformation of the 

 wild bird was but slightly departed from; but since the 

 establishment of competitive poultry shows, the breeders 

 have aimed at increasing the length of the neck and limbs, 

 the result being the production of such specimens as are 

 shown in figures 1 and 2, representing a Black-breasted 



Fisr. 1. 



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Black-breasted Red Game Cockerel. 



Red Game cockerel arid pullet that have just assumed their 

 adult plumage, having been drawn, as were all the illustra- 

 tions to this article, in September from birds of the current 

 year. So successful have been the efforts of the fanciers to 

 produce long-limbed birds, that the hens not unfrequently 

 stand with the keel of the breast-bone raised 12 or 13 inches 

 from the ground. The feathers in this breed are now required 



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