MANUAL ON POULTRY. 



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color they are mainly white, but with black in the main feathers of 

 the tail and the flight feathers of the wing, and the hackle feathers 

 have a decided black stripe down the centre of each. 



LIGHT BRAHMA*. 



The hens are good layers, reliable sitters, and careful mothers. 

 Like the Cochins, they do well in conn'nemen: within limited 

 bounds, where they are restrained without difficulty, since they fly 

 but little. 



The Dark Brahma is not quite 

 so heavy as the light, the standard 

 weight of cock and hen being 

 each one pound less than in the 

 Light Brahma. The prevailing 

 color of the Dark Brahma cock 

 is black, with silvery white hack- 

 lee, wing crest and saddle 

 feathers. 



The hen corresponds very 

 closely in color with the male, 

 making allowance for the charac- 

 teristic differences between the 

 sexes. Brahmas are usually bred 



DARK BRAHMAS. 



