POULTRY CULTURE 



FIG. 520. Partridge Wyandotte cock. (Pho- 

 tograph by Graham) 



who practices it cannot long com- 

 pete with one of equal skill who 

 breeds two distinct lines. It is a 

 significant fact that special mat- 

 ing for the sexes, though not 

 made a regular system until after 

 it had been adopted for another 

 pattern, was worked out first with 

 fowls of the colors of the natural 

 species, and as a result of the 

 fancier's efforts to develop in each 

 sex the sexual color tendency. 



Mating modified black-red 

 color types. We have seen that 

 the black-red color type, the same 

 in pattern in the males of many 

 varieties, is modified in the fe- 

 males of all these varieties ; that 

 it may be changed in the females 

 without changing in the males; 

 that the males will regularly trans- 

 mit in their female offspring the 

 pattern peculiar to females of 



their own race ; and that the influence of the female coloration on the male 

 coloration may be very strong, developing a tendency to distribution of red 

 throughout the black, as in the female. 

 By further separation of the colors on 

 each feather in the female plumage the 

 several pencilings may be combined either 

 in a single broad penciling, or " lacing," 

 following the edge of the feather, as in 

 the Golden-Laced Wyandotte, or in a 

 spot, or " spangle," near the tip of the 

 feather, as in the Golden-Spangled Ham- 

 burg, or in transverse bars crossing the 

 feather, as in the Golden-Penciled Ham- 

 burg. With these types of female color- 

 ation may be developed male types with 

 the female markings in all black sections, 

 the red sections remaining as before, 

 as in the Golden-Laced Wyandotte, or 

 changed to give on the special male 

 feathers a distribution corresponding to 



that in the general plumage, as in the FIG. 521. Partridge Wyandotte hen 

 Golden Polish, or with the black in all (Photograph by Graham) 



