BREEDS DESCRIBED 



the Leghorns, but while the egg is very pretty and 

 snow-white in color, it is considerably smaller than 

 a Leghorn egg. The birds average a pound or so 

 lighter in weight than the Leghorns, but have no 

 Standard weights. Besides being too small for 

 market purposes, their white skin and leaden-blue- 

 colored legs are against them. The Silver Span- 

 gled Hamburgs are the most widely bred of all 

 the varieties in this family, and are usually con- 

 sidered the most handsome. The three other most 

 common varieties are the Golden Spangled, the 

 Golden Penciled, and the Silver Penciled. The 

 White Hamburgs and the Black Hamburgs are 

 rarely bred. 



Andalusians. There is but one variety of the 

 Andalusian family. This one has the unique dis- 

 tinction of wearing the national colors its face 

 and eyes being red, its ear-lobes white, and its 

 plumage blue. In shape and size they are between 

 the Leghorns and the Minorcas. In common with 

 other breeds in this class, they are prolific layers 

 of large white eggs; have large combs, and are 

 non-sitters; legs slaty-blue in color. They are an 

 old breed, but have never become popular and 

 probably never will. 



Anconas are purely Mediterranean or Leghorn 

 in type and general characteristics, the only varia- 

 tion being in color, which is an evenly mottled 

 black and white throughout. The birds are of 



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