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are black and white, practically the colour of the light 

 Brahma. Greys somewhat resemble the general effect of 

 silver-grey Dorkings. And there is a buff, or, rather, salmon- 

 colour, or salmon-buff and cream, which has, perhaps, found 

 the most general favour in England, as most distinctive 

 from other breeds. 



The Faverolles is a splendid utility fowl, as the French 

 have made it. But it has been made by crossing, and 

 its good qualities fixed by breeding only for these, quite 

 irrespective of fixed exhibition points. And in proportion 

 as it is bred for such points, which in so nondescript a 

 bird outwardly, means necessarily much in-breeding, its 

 valuable economic qualities must be lost. 



There are several less known breeds of more or less 

 definite or indefinite type known in France, chiefly by the 

 name of the districts where they prevail. The Le Mans 

 fowl appears a kind of sub-variety of, or to be allied to, the 

 Creve, but with rose or cup comb and little or no crest. In 

 the Bourg district, the fowls are largely white, with evident 

 traces of the English white Dorking. The district of 

 Barbezieux is rather famous for a black fowl with white 

 ear-lobes and very glossy plumage, the breast very pro- 

 minent, and the tail close and carried rather low, the 

 legs with large scales. These features seem rather distinctly 

 to point to some modification of the La Fleche or similar 

 breed by Indian Game the only instance in which the 

 influence of this latter breed may possibly be traced in the 

 fowls of France. 



CHAPTER XX. 



AMERICAN BREEDS. 



WHATEVER its original source, it has already been recorded 

 how the Brahma itself was introduced into this country 



