PLYMOUTH ROCK STANDARD AND BREED BOOK 



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in his own flock acquires in some way the blood of another that 

 possesses the quality in which his strain is deficient ; so the blood 

 of all meritorious strains is quickly passed around and it is well 

 it is so, because then the variety acquires something of uni- 

 formity. 



Stock that showed black in tails and wings would naturally 

 follow from the same ancestry that developed the Rhode Island 

 Reds (The Fall River Buff Rocks). Flecking and white in the 

 wing and undercolor from Light Brahma. (Wilson strain). The 

 same defect would be expected from stock that contained the 

 White Plymouth Rock blood, and the white blood of both strains 

 would account for light undercolor and unevenness of surface. 



PLATE 63 



BUFF PLYMOUTH EOCKS 



Half tone from photograph of tail of Buff Plymouth Eock cock 

 (winner of first at Madison Square Garden, New York, show), show- 

 ing smaller sickle and larger tail covert marked with chestnut color, a 

 not uncommon blemish in fine buff colored males. This color is very 

 much less defective in buff varieties than gray, black or white. 



