OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS 



Varieties of bantams. The most popular bantams in this 

 country to-day are the Cochin Bantams, formerly called Pekin 

 Bantams because the first that were seen 

 in Europe and America had come from 

 Peking. Only 

 the self-colored 

 varieties buff, 

 black, and white 

 - are natives 

 of China. The 



Partridge vari- FlG - 66 - Silver Sebright Ban- 



ety was made in 



FIG. 65. Silver Sebright 

 Bantam cockerel 



tarn pullet 



England, where there are several other color varieties not known 

 in this country. The Common Game Bantam is a dwarf Pit 



Game fowl ; the Exhibition Game 

 Bantam is a dwarf type resembling 

 the Exhibition Game, developed from 

 the Common Game Bantam. Rose- 

 Comb Black and Rose-Comb White 

 Bantams are diminutive Hamburg 

 fowls; Polish Bantams are diminu- 

 tive Polish. The Sebright Bantams 

 are of the 

 same gen- 

 eral type as 

 the Rose- 

 Combs, but in color they are laced 

 like the large varieties of Polish, not 

 spangled like the party-colored Ham- 

 burgs. They are further distin- 

 guished by being "hen-tailed," that 

 is, the males having tails like hens. 

 Sebright Bantams were made in 



FIG. 67. Dark Brahma Bantam 

 cockerel 



FIG. 68. Light Brahma Bantam 

 hen with brood 1 



1 Photograph from Brook View Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts. 



