Cochin- Chinas. i>9 



Grouse and Partridge hens should have a black-breasted 

 cock ; and that Buff and Cinnamon birds should not be 

 placed together, but all the birds in the pen should be 

 either Buff or Cinnamon. The Cinnamon are of two 

 shades, the Light Cinnamon and the Silver, which is a pale 

 washy tint, that looks very delicate and pretty when per- 

 fectly clean. Silver Cinnamon hens should not be penned 

 with a pale Yellow cock, but with one as near to their own 

 tint as can be found. Mr. Andrews's celebrated strain of 

 Cochins sometimes produced both cocks and hens which 

 were Silver Cinnamon, with streaks of gold in the hackle. 



In Partridge birds the cock's neck and saddle hackles 

 should be of a bright red, striped with black, his back and 

 wings of dark red, the latter crossed with a well-defined 

 bar of metallic greenish black, and the breast and under 

 parts of his body should be black, and not mottled. The 

 hen's neck hackles should be of bright gold, striped with 

 black, and all the other portions of her body of a light 

 brown, pencilled with very dark brown. The Grouse are 

 very dark Partridge, have a very rich appearance, and 

 are particularly beautiful when laced. They are far from 

 common, and well worth cultivating. The Partridge are 

 more mossed in their markings, and not so rich in colour 

 as the Grouse. Cuckoo Cochins are marked like the 

 Cuckoo Dorkings, and difficult to breed free of yellow. 



The White and Black were introduced later than the 

 others. Mr. Baily says the White were principally bred 

 from a pair imported and given to the Dean of Worcester, 

 and which afterwards became the property of Mrs. 

 Herbert, of Powick. White Cochins for exhibition must 

 have yellow legs, and they are prone to green. The origin 

 of the Black is disputed. It is said to be a sport from the 

 White, or to have been produced by a cross between the 

 Buff and the White. By careful breeding it has been fixed 

 as a decided sub-variety, but it is difficult, if not almost 

 impossible, to rear a cock to complete maturity entirely 

 free from coloured feathers. They keep perfectly pure in 

 colour till six months old, after which age they sometimes 

 show a golden patch or red feathers upon the wing, or 



