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Plymouth Rocks. Almost immediately Buff Plymouth Rocks 

 appeared. For reasons which will appear later, the origin 



of these will be given 

 in another connection. 

 Then came in rapid suc- 

 cession the Silver-Pen- 

 ciled, the Partridge, or 

 Golden-Penciled (which, 

 as has been said, is 

 probably quite a close 

 duplicate of the type to 



FIG. 48. Silver-Laced Wyandotte pullet. Photo- which the mme pj 

 graphed in position showing lacing on back . . 



outh Rock was origi- 

 nally given), and the Columbian, or Ermine, Plymouth Rock. 

 These were all of the general type of the Barred variety, but 

 because in most cases they 

 were made by different 

 combinations, and because 

 fanciers are much more par- 

 ticular to breed for color 

 than to breed for typical 

 form, the several varieties 

 of the Plymouth Rock are 

 slightly different in form. 



The Wyandottes. Closely 

 following the appearance of 

 the Barred Plymouth Rock 

 came the Silver-Laced Wy- 

 andotte, called at first sim- 

 ply the Wyandotte. The 

 original type was quite dif- 

 ferent in color from the 



modern type. It had on each FlG ^ silver- Laced Wyandotte 

 feather a small white center cockerel 



