198 DIFFERENT BREEDS OF POULTRY. 



The white Leghorn is a rather small edition of the white 

 Minorca, but with bright yellow legs. It has the large single 

 comb, red face, and white deaf -ears, is a non-sitter, and lays 

 the same white egg, though much smaller, owing to its own 

 smaller size. The first birds which arrived had rather coarse 

 creamy or yellowish deaf-ears, rather than white, and very up- 

 right or even squirrel-tails ; but English breeders have remedied 

 both these faults. 



The brown Leghorn is similar to the other in shape and 

 size perhaps rather more plump in body of the two and 

 exactly the same remarks apply to the ears and tails of the 

 first specimens. The plumage of this variety is exactly the 

 same as that of the Black-breasted Bed Game. 



There is clear evidence that Leghorns did come from Italy 

 in the first place, and direct importations have since been made 

 from Italian ports. Black and cuckoo Leghorns have also 

 appeared, and by crossing with Game, Duck wings and Piles 

 were also produced. Pure bufts have been the last, and are 

 becoming exceedingly popular ; none of the others equal the 

 original breeds. 



Good strains of Leghorns, of either colour, are amongst the 

 most amazing layers of all, many hens having been recorded 

 to have laid over 200 eggs in a year. 



BLACK JAVAS. This is a large clean-legged black breed of 

 fowls, long known in the States, but only lately introduced 

 here. Its most peculiar point is the full, lustrous brown eye ; 

 in other respects it has much resemblance to a smooth-legged 

 Langshan, and it is highly probable that the latter owed its 

 origin to crossing between a fowl like this and the Chinese 

 Bhanghae. It is a fair layer, good in flesh, and a hardy useful 

 fowl, much appreciated by those who have given it a trial. 



WYANDOTTES. These fowls have recently become very 

 popular both in England and in America, and certainly are 

 handsome. They seem to have been produced by crossing 



