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FIG. 432. Rose-Combed Black Orpington 

 cockerel, an immature bird * 



composite of nearly all the 

 earlier varieties of black fowls 

 with single combs. The Rose- 

 Comb Black Orpington is said 

 to have been produced by mat- 

 ing Rose-Comb Black Lang- 

 shan males with pullets from 

 the Minorca-Black Plymouth 

 Rock cross used for the single- 

 combed subvariety. The black 

 variety was presented to the 

 public in 1886. 



Buff Orpingtons (single- and 

 rose-comb). The originator's 

 account of the making of this 

 variety gives the Buff Cochin 

 as the foundation stock, with 

 the Golden-Spangled Hamburg 

 and Dark Dorking as the other 



components. The prevailing opinion among disinterested English 



authorities is that the Buff Orping- 

 ton is, as one writer puts it, "a 



refined Lincolnshire Buff." The 



Lincolnshire Buff is a breed devel- 

 oped locally, like the Bucks County 



Fowl and the Rhode Island Red 



in America. The Buff Orpington, 



accordingly, would bear the same 



relation to it as a Buff Plymouth 



Rock to a Bucks County Fowl, or 



an improved Rhode Island Red 



to the ordinary red fowl of .the 



Little Compton farms. Whatever 



the facts as to the original stock, 



here again there is no doubt that 



when the variety became popular, any buff fowl approximating the 



type might be passed for a Buff Orpington, and the variety to-day 



1 Photographs from owner, II. C. Faulkner, Marshall, Michigan. 



FIG. 433. Rose-Combed Black 

 Orpington pullet 1 



