ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Lady Macduff. The first 300-egg hen Frontispiece 



Jungle fowl cock (Gallus bankivus) 3 



Jungle fowl hen (Gallus bankivus) 4 



White Leghorn cockerel 31 



Black Minorca male 32 



Barred Plymouth Rock cockerel 39 



Barred Rock hen, showing fine barring 40 



White Wyandotte hen 42 



White Wyandotte cock 43 



Rhode Island Reds 44 



White Orpington hen 48 



Light Sussex 49 



Speckled Sussex 50 



Domesticated 51 



Faverolle hen 51 



Three breeds of different types winning in Australian laying 



competitions 53 



Good utility Barred Plymouth Rock cockerel 55 



Light Brahmas 56 



Buff Cochin hen 57 



Le Mans A special French meat breed 58 



Points of the fowl 59 



La Fleche 60 



Variation the opportunity of the breeder 64 



Result of crossing White Wyandotte and Black Minorca, 



showing barring 67 



Breed improvers. Pedigreed cockerels, from stock with rec- 

 ords of over 200 eggs in a year 69 



Barred Plymouth Rock male. Son of a 218-egg hen . . . . 71 



A good type of breeder from 200-egg stock 72 



Barred Plymouth Rock male, Oregon Station 73 



Result of breeding for a fancy point 74 



Barred Rock and White Leghorn first cross, male . . . . . . 78 



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