128 LESSONS IN POULTRY KEEPING SECOND SERIES. 



The Pekiu Duck takes its name from the port of Pekin, China. The Aylesbury, also a White 

 Duck, from the district of England where it is most extensively grown. The ''Standard" gives 

 Rouen Ducks as of one variety, "Colored," but I do not remember ever having heard or seen 

 the expression Colored Rouen Duck. The Cayuga Duck is Black, and it is quite usual to use 

 the full descriptive title, Black Cayuga Duck. East India Ducks also are generally mentioned 

 as Black East India Ducks. The Call Ducks, White and Gray, generally get their full titles. 

 Muscovy Ducks, too, are fully described as Colored or White. The term "Colored," when 

 applied to the name of a breed of poultry is, as is very evident, used as the readiest term to 

 differentiate the variety to which it is applied from others which get a more specific description. 

 Hence it may be observed that in the making as well as the using of names we may find 

 evidences of easy going tendencies. A Colored Muscovy Duck is black and white. A Colored 

 Dorking is a Dorking that Is not white nor yet silver gray, but runs rather to shades of red or 

 brown. A Colored Rouen Duck best deserves the term, for in the male, especially, there is a 

 profusion of colors. The Crested White Duck is just a plain white duck with a top-knot. The 

 Indian Runner Duck has a sort of hybrid name. It is not an Indian Duck, but according to 

 best authorities, a Belgian production, and properly named and described as a simple Runner 

 Duck, the name coming from Its active habit. The Blue Swedish Duck takes its name from its 

 color and from the country of its supposed origin. 



Names of geese are seldom, if ever, abbreviated. The breed name may be used alone or with 

 the color more specifically describing it. Toulouse* and Embden Geese are quite frequently 

 mentioned as Gray Toulouse and White Embden Geese, thus describing them more fully, 

 though it is not necessary to do this to fix their identity. African Geese, described in the 

 Standard as "Gray," are not at all such a gray as the Toulouse, but rather on the brown order. 

 The Chinese Geese are the only breed having two varieties. These are Brown and White. It 

 is quite common to call them China geese, instead of Chinese. The Wild Goose is also known 

 as the Canada or Canadian Goose, and frequently given both titles, Wild Canada Goose. 



