TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 365 



FIG. 355. Rose-Comb White Minorca cockerel 

 (Photograph by Eugene Hall) 



from the Black Leg- 

 horn only by the color 

 of the skin, and 

 (usually, not always) 

 by its slightly greater 

 size. Much of this 

 stock is mixed Leg- 

 horn-Minorca. In- 

 stances have been 

 known of breeders 

 advertising Black 

 Leghorns and Black 

 Minorcas and ship- 

 ping both from the 

 same lot. Compar- 

 isons of Leghorns 



and Minorcas based on presumptive constitutional breed differ- 

 ences are fallacious. Practically there is no difference between 



them. The Black Minorca 



has been commonly pre- 

 ferred to the Black Leghorn 



wherever a black fowl of 



the laying type was wanted. 



On the other hand, where a 



white fowl of this type was 



wanted, the Leghorn has 



been given preference, and, 



as in the case of the black 



varieties, the White Minorca 



has been used to give size 



to the Leghorn. 



The typical American 



Standard Minorca is usually 



FIG. 356. Single-Comb White Minorca hen 



(Photograph from owner, H. J. Teetz, 



Gloversville, New York) 



more docile than the Leg- 

 horn, less able, because of 

 its excessively large comb, 

 to stand low temperatures, and ordinarily less rugged, though that 

 is largely a matter of the handling of the stock. The rose-combed 



