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lacks the brilliant reflections of the Bronze or the irides- 

 cence of the Black, it has a beauty all its own. which 

 quite compensates for this lack. Delicate colors are not 

 necessarily indications of delicate constitutions. We have, 

 ft is true, long been influenced by the impression that 



FIG. 6. BUFF TURKEY COCK. 



white fowls are less hardy than colored ones, but this 

 impression would not apply to buff. The buff-colored 

 turkey is no more delicate than its darker cousins. 



How it perhaps originated can be guessed, though we 

 have no records to tell us the matings or the maker oi the 



