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white. The breed may be regarded as Gold-spangled Polish, 

 in which the black spangle has been changed into white — 

 a process of easy accomplishment compared with the diffi- 

 culty of obtaining a breed in which the feathers that are 

 naturally red are changed into white. Thus, to revert to 

 the Game breed, Black-breasted Red Game are coloured 

 precisely like the wild G. ferrugineus. Nothing is more easy 

 than to produce, by crossing with a white bird, the variety 



Fig. 14. 



w/m 



Scotch Grey Cock. 



known as Pile Game, in which all the feathers that are 

 black in the original become white, the red remaining un- 

 changed. In the hands of a skilled breeder black and white 

 are more easily interchangeable than any other colours, a 

 fact which is in obvious relation to the more frequent oc- 

 currence of albinos amongst black species than those of lighter 

 colours. 



ser. vi. — vol. ii. 2 a 



