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The plumage color of the Cornish Indian Games requires 

 more detailed consideration. The following description, adapt- 

 ed from the American Standard of Perfection (pp. 205-208) 

 is taken from another paper.* 



Color of Cornish Indian Games. 



Male. Female. 



Head: Plumage black. Head: Plumage black or black penciled 



with bay, approaching mahogany. 



Neck: HackLe, glossy and greenish black; Neck: Hackle glossy black, with bay 

 shafts red; plumage other than hackles, shaft to each feather, the black greatly 



rich, glossy black. predominating ; plumage other than 



hackle, ground color bay, approaching 

 mahogany, each feather having two 

 pencilings of lustrous black, the pencil- 

 ings following contour of web of feather. 



Back: Glossy greenish-black and dark Back, Breast, Body, Wing-Bows, Wing- 

 Ted intermixed, the black greatly pre- Coverts and Tail-Coverts: Ground 

 dominating ; saddle feathers like the color bay, approaching mahogany, each 

 back in color, but with a somewhat feather having two pencilings of lustrous 

 larger proportion of dark red. black, the pencilings following contour 



of web of feather. 



Breast: Rich, glossy black, free from any 

 other color. 



Body and Stern: Black. Sterol: Black, or black tipped with bay. 



Wings: Wing fronts, black ; wing bows. Wings: Primaries, black, except a nar- 

 glossy greenish-black and dark red inter- row edging of irregularly penciled bay 

 mixed, the black greatly predominating ; upon outer part of web; secondaries, 

 coverts forming wing bars, metallic upper web black next to shaft of feather, 

 black ; primaries, black, except a nar- with a broad margin of irregularly pen- 

 row edging of bay on outer web ; sec- ciled bay. 

 ondaries. upper web black, lower web 

 about J black next to shaft of feather, 

 the remainder being bay. 



Tail: Black ; sickles and coverts, glossy Tail: Main feathers, black or irregularly 

 greenish-black. penciled with bay. 



Barred Plymouth Rocks and Cornish Indian Games present 

 two extremes from the utility standpoint. This affords another 

 important reason why this particular cross was chosen for in- 

 tensive study. The Cornish Indian Game is a "meat type" bird 

 par excellence. It has long been noted as one of the best breeds 

 of poultry for meat producing purposes, particularly when 

 crossed with other breeds. The Plymouth Rock, on the other 

 hand, while a general purpose fowl, has been more particularly 

 bred for its egg producing qualities. One of the objects held 

 in mind in undertaking the work was to see in how far it might 

 be possible to recombine, in accordance with Mendelian prin- 

 ciples, the utility characters of these two breeds. 



The purpose of the present paper is to give an account of 

 some of the results of this hybrid work in the Fi, or first hybrid 

 generation. 



*Pearl, R. and Surface, F. M. On the Inheritance of the Barred 

 Color Pattern in Poultry. Roux's Archiv. (In press). 



