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and color to the Standard Exhibition Games of the same names. The 

 Standard weights for Game Bantams are: cocks, 22 ozs. ; cockerels, 20 

 ozs. ; hens, 20 ozs. ; pullets, 18 ozs. Game Bantams are generally hardy, 

 fair layers, fond of being handled and petted. The Black Breasted Red is 

 the most common and popular variety, though all the varieties mentioned are 

 so generally bred that they are not anywhere unfamiliar to persons interested 

 in fancy fowls. 



Malay Game Bantams, which resemble Malay Games, are rare. 



320. Sebright Bantams. There are two varieties, the Golden and the 

 Silver, differing only in the ground color of the plumage, which is in the 



former a golden yellow, and in the latter a 

 silvery white. Each feather is laced with 

 a narrow edge of black. Sebright Bantams 

 have rose combs, slate colored legs and toes. 

 A peculiarity of the breed is that the males 

 are " hen feathered;" that is, instead of 

 having the flowing hackle and saddle feathers 

 and abundant tails, as is usual in male fowls, 

 the Standard Sebright Bantam male has 

 plumage differing from that of the female 

 only in that the two upper tail feathers may 

 be slightly curved at the ends. The produc- 

 tion of such plumage on males is abnormal, 



Fig. 86. Exhibition Game and White Crested and ^ ^ ^^ the cage when individuals 



White Polish Bantams. 



of one sex assume characters of the opposite 



sex, the "best" Standard males are often partly or wholly infertile and 

 worthless as breeders. Consequently the breeders of Sebright Bantams often 

 find it necessary to use in the breeding pens males having plumage too much 

 like that common to male fowls to admit of their being shown in the exhibition 

 room. Sebrights are among the most popular varieties of bantams, and are 

 fairly hardy. 



321. Rose Combed Bantams. Of these there are two varieties, the 

 White and the Black, the Whites pure white, with white or yellow legs ; the 



Blacks brilliant black, with black or dark lead colored legs. Both varieties 

 are quite common, and fairly hardy. The Standard weights are the same 

 as for Sebrights. 



322. Booted White Bantams. All white, single combed, shanks and 

 outer toes heavily feathered, prominent vulture hocks ; weights as for Sebrights. 

 This variety might be mistaken by one not familiar with the different breeds, 



