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came the Buff Wyandottes 

 (from the same original 

 source as the Buff Plymouth 

 Rocks), and after them Par- 

 tridge Wyandottes, Silver- 

 Penciled Wyandottes, and 

 Columbian, or Ermine, Wy- 

 andottes. From the three 

 last-named varieties came 

 the Plymouth Rock varieties 

 of the corresponding colors, 

 the first stocks of these be- 

 ing the single-combed speci- 

 mens from the flocks of 



FIG. 51. Siver-Penciled Wyandotte cock- 

 erel. (Photograph from James s. Wason, breeders of these varieties 

 Grand Rapids, Michigan) o f Wyandottes. 



The Rhode Island Red. Among the earliest of the local types 

 developed in America was a 

 red fowl which soon became 

 the prevalent type in the egg- 

 farming section of Rhode Island 

 and quite popular in the adjacent 

 part of Massachusetts. Most of 

 the stock of this race was pro- 

 duced by a continuous process 

 of grading and crossing which 

 was systematic only in that it 

 was the common practice to pre- 

 serve none but the red males 

 after introducing a cross of an- 

 other color. A few breeders in 



... , , i - n i FIG. C2. Partridge Wyandotte pullet 



the district bred their flocks 



more carefully than others, but the race as a whole was not 



really thoroughbred until after it became more widely popular. 



