TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 357 



not to be compared in beauty of color with the exhibition female. 

 The Standard female has a ground color of light brown, with 

 black tail, dark-brown flight feathers, a fine stippling of dark brown 

 on the back and wings, the breast salmon and the hackle orange 

 yellow with black stripe. The male of the same breeding is very 

 much lighter in color than the exhibition male, a lighter red, 

 usually with less striping in the hackle and saddle, and the black of 

 the breast and body more or 

 less mottled or bronzed with 

 red. In reality the Brown 

 Leghorn has two color vari- 

 eties, dark and light. The 

 Standard describes the male 

 of the dark and the female of 

 the light variety, and these 

 are shown together in the exhi- 

 bition pen. They are chosen, 

 not as matching in color, 

 like the exhibition Barred 

 Plymouth Rocks, but as show- 

 ing the finest color develop- 

 ments in the different sexes. 

 Brown Leghorns are some- 

 times bred to secure standard 

 specimens of both sexes from 

 the same mating, and when 

 so bred, in time give a third intermediate color variety, specimens 

 of which often closely approximate Standard requirements, though 

 in general they have little chance of winning in competition with 

 birds of the other lines. 



Buff Leghorns (single-comb and rose-comb). That among early 

 importations of Leghorns there were more of the yellow, or buff, 

 than of the brown-red shade seems certain, though little interest 

 was taken in them at that time. Buff Leghorns were shown under 

 that name in America in 1867, more than twenty years before the 

 modern Buff Leghorn began to be developed in England, but they 

 made so little impression that the variety soon disappeared, and 

 even the fact of their existence was forgotten until records of their 



FIG. 343. Rose-Comb Brown Leghorn 

 cockerel. (Photograph from owner, 

 W. W. Kulp, Pottstown, Pennsylvania) 



