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FIG. 430. Single-Combed Black 



Orpington cockerel. (Photograph 



from owner, W. E. Matthews, 



New London, Connecticut) 



and legs (black or flesh color). 

 The typical Orpington is also a 

 heavier-bodied bird, comparing 

 with American birds of the type 

 as do the English Minorcas and 

 Leghorns with American types of 

 those breeds. The color varieties 

 are black, buff, white, variegated 

 (the " Diamond Jubilee "), and 

 spangled. In some varieties there 

 are both rose- and single-combed 

 subvarieties, as indicated in the 

 following descriptions. Thus in 

 the Orpington are combined the 

 general form and both styles of 

 comb found in fowls of the Amer- 

 ican general-purpose type. 



Black Orpingtons (single- and 

 rose-comb). This, the first variety 



of the Orpington, was said by the originator to have been produced 



by a series of crosses in which 



Black Plymouth Rocks, Black 



Minorcas, and clean-legged Black 



Langshans were used. English 



writers familiar with the variety 



in England assert that it shows 



Black Cochin blood more con- 

 spicuously than anything else, and 



the appearance of many of the 



specimens shown in America sup- 

 ports this view. The Cochin type, 



however, is not the exclusive 



type in the Black Orpington. 



Both the Langshan type and the 



long-bodied Plymouth Rock type 



are found. Consideration of such 



facts indicates that, whatever may have been true of the stock of 



the originator, the single-comb Black Orpington is at present a 



FIG. 431. Single-Combed Black 



Orpington hen. (Photograph from 



owner, W. E. Matthews) 



