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generally had reddish 

 hackles, backs, and 

 saddles. Though re- 

 ports of exhibitions 

 every year described 

 males quite perfect in 

 color, it was about 

 1900 before males of 

 a uniform shade ' of 

 buff were produced. 

 The rose-combed va- 

 riety was developed in 

 America, apparently 

 by crossing with the 

 Rose-Combed White 

 Leghorn. 



White Leghorns 

 (single-comb and rose- 

 comb). The single- 

 combed variety was 



developed in this country contemporaneously with the brown and 



black varieties, attracting less attention than the brown at first, but 



later becoming more popular . 



with specialists in egg produc- 

 tion. The color of the plumage 



is white throughout, naturally 



a creamy white, the dazzling 



white seen in the exhibition 



room being secured (except in 



rare cases) only by washing or 



bleaching the feathers. In its 



relation to other varieties the 



White Leghorn represented the 



last stage in the reduction of 



the color of the black-red fowl 



of the initial type, the 



FIG. 346. Single-Comb White Leghorn cock 

 (Photograph by E. J. Hall) 



sev- 



eral intermediate stages being 

 brown, red, buff, white. 



FIG. 347. Single-Comb White Leghorn 



hen. (Photograph from owner, Harmon 



Bradshaw, Lebanon, Indiana) 



