7 8 



PO UL TR r- CRAFT. 



neighbors have, a consideration with some who keep poultry for pleasure, can 

 get it in the Orpington. There are three established varieties: BLACK, 

 WHITE, and BUFF. In each variety there are single combed and rose combed 

 sub-varieties. 



GAMES. 



92. Exhibition Games. Fig. 75. Pit Games. There are two dis- 

 tinct types of Game fowls. The exhibi- 

 tion type is a bird very long in legs and 

 neck, with stilted, crane-like carriage. 

 The Pit Game is shorter in the leg, heavier 

 in body, and a much better fowl for prac- 

 tical purposes. In sections where cock- 

 fighting still prevails flocks of Games are 

 kept for domestic purposes quite as often 

 as flocks of any other breed. They are 

 rated hardy ; average layers of white or 

 tinted eggs ; are sitters ; flesh makes fairly 

 good poultry, but a trifle hard. Games 

 cannot be considered as rivals of popular 

 economic breeds. The color types in Pit 

 Games are not well defined. They can 

 hardly be classed as varieties. The Stand- 

 ard varieties of Exhibition Games are : 



Fijf. 75. Exhibition Game Cock. 

 (By courtesy of A. E. Blunck). 



BLACK BREASTED RED, BROWN RED, GOLDEN DUCKWING, SILVER DUCK- 

 WING, RED PYLE, WHITE, BLACK, and BIRCHEN. 



93. Cornish Indian Games. Not 



very hardy ; meat breed ; they are ordinary 

 to poor layers of tinted eggs ; sitters ; pea 

 combs ; red ear lobes ; yellow skin and 

 legs ; Standard weights, cock 9 Ibs., cock- 

 erel yy 2 Ibs., hen 6^ Ibs., pullet 5^ Ibs. ; 

 are very full in the breast, and broad at 

 the shoulders; back, convex instead of 

 flat or concave, as in most other breeds. 

 There are two varieties, the DARK, (Fig. 

 76), and the WHITE, (Fig. 77); the 

 former, in color, a very dark black red 

 (crimson) ; the Standard requires in the 

 female plumage with bay ground double 

 or triple laced with black. Usually 

 these markings are not well defined. 



Fiflf. 76. Dark Indian Game Hen. 

 (By courtesy of Adam Thompson). 



