ASIATIC FOWLS. 



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center of each feather. The plume of the cock is often lighter than that 

 of the hen; the back should be quite white in both sexes. The wings 

 should appear white when folded, but the flight feathers are black ; the 

 tail black in both cock and hen ; in the cock, however, it is well developed, 

 and the covert^s show splendid green reflections in the light; it should 

 stand tolerably upright, and open well out laterally, like a fan; the 

 legs should be yellow, and well covered with white feathers, which may 

 or may not be very slightly mottled with black; ear-lobes must be pure 

 red, and every bird should have a perfect pea-comb. The illustration 

 shows both the penciled or dark and also the light Brahma. 



SINGLE-COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCK. 



IV. Cochin Fov^^ls. 



As an indication of the steady and increasing popularity of this, the 

 largest of valuable barn-yard fowls, it is only necessary to enumerate 

 some of the principal varieties into which they have been broken up, 

 according to the taste or fancy of breeders. These are, White, Buff, 



