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CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMI'LETE STOCK DOCTOR. 



mating together blues, piles, duns, and brown and black-breasted reds; 

 so that there is little uniformity of color in the strain. In the purest 

 strain is a light streaky breasted cock, with back and shoulder coverts 

 dark crimson ; saddle red maroon on centre, pn.ssing off to* a dark lemon 

 and straw; hackle red, with the middle of each feather dark. The hen 

 should have a nearly black body, but intermixed with gray on the wing; 

 the hackle bright, brassy or golden. 



IV. Duck-Winged Games. 

 Like the Brown-breasted reds, there are several varieties of the 

 Duck-wings. The Silver Grays are considered to be, perhaps, the pure.-;t 

 in type; but each fancier has his own peculiar strain. Tegetmeier des- 

 cril)es the best cocks, correct in color, as having the hackle nearly clear 

 white, with a very slight tinge of straw color, without any decided yel- 

 low tinge or dark streak on the feather. The saddle should be as nearly 

 as possible the color of the hackle; the Ijrenst of a maroon straw; the 



PAIK OF WHITE-FACED BLACK SPANISH FOWLS. 



shoulder coverts a rich brass or coi)per maroon ; the breast and tail pure 

 black. The hens to match these cocks should have their necks of a clear 

 silver, striped with black, the silver to go right up to the comb, but being 

 a little darker above the eyes; the back and shoulder coverts a bluish- 

 gray, shaft of feather scarcely showing any difference from the rest of 

 the feather, any approach to red or penciling being decidedly objection- 

 able ; the breast salmon color, of a rich shade. 



