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FIG. 411 . White Wyandotte pullet, 

 owned by A. G. Duston, South 

 Framingham, Massachusetts. (Pho- 

 tograph by Sewell) 



variety, with a ground of golden bay 

 instead of white. 



White Wyandottes were produced 

 as sports from the lighter specimens 

 of the early silver-laced variety, and 

 also (it may safely be presumed) by 

 every cross that promised a rose- 

 combed white fowl of this general 

 type. In fact, for a long time after 

 the variety was introduced, any rose- 

 combed white fowl with yellow legs 

 that was larger than an ordinary Leg- 

 horn was offered, and often passed, 

 as a White Wyandotte. The stock, 

 as introduced in 1885 by Reverend 

 B. M. Briggs, then of Wyandale, New 

 York, was of Silver- Laced Wyandotte origin. The very heavy- 

 bodied, dark-egg strains of some years later bore unmistakable 

 traces of Light Brahma blood. As with other American varieties 

 time and wide distribution of 

 the best stocks has gradually 

 produced great uniformity of 

 type. After the Barred Plym- 

 outh Rock, the White Wyan- 

 dotte became the most popular 

 variety in America ; and within 

 ten years of its introduction it 

 was regarded as a dangerous 

 rival of the Barred Plymouth 

 Rock. Had the competition 

 been between the Barred Plym- 

 outh Rock and the White Wy- 

 andotte alone, the latter would 

 have led in the end, but the 

 White Wyandotte had to divide 

 with the White Plymouth Rock 



the favor of those who wanted 

 a white fowl of its class. 



FIG. 412. White Wyandotte cockerel, 



owned by J. W. Andrews, Dighton, 



Massachusetts 



