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where the breeds (other 

 than English breeds) 

 originated, but those 

 types as modified by 

 English fanciers. In 

 America, again, most of 



these breeds have been 



slightly changed to con-, 

 form to the ideas of 

 American fanciers. So, 

 while the breed charac- 

 ters are still the same as 

 in the original stocks, 

 the pupil looking at 

 birds of these breeds to- 

 day must not suppose 

 that it was just such 



birds that came to this country from seventy to a hundred years 



ago, or that, if he went to the countries where those races 



originated, he would find 



birds just like those he had 



seen at home. Except in the 



case of the distinctly English 



breeds, such as the Dorking 



and the Cornish Indian 



Game, which are bred to 



greater perfection in their 



native land than elsewhere, 



he would find most of the 



European races not so highly 



developed in the countries 



where they originated as in 



FIG. 29. Single-Comb Brown Leghorn cockerel 



(Photograph from Grove Hill Poultry Yards, 



Waltham, Massachusetts) 



England and America, where 

 fanciers are more numerous. 



FIG. 30. Rose-Comb Buff Leghorn hen 



(Photograph from H. J. Fisk, Falconer, 



New York) 



