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exhibition game fowl has been known. The exhibition 
game has been bred so far away from the old style of 
fighting cock that except in the matter of color it might 
be called a new breed. The modern exhibition game is 
very long of leg and neck, very high in station, carrying 
its body erect and its head high, with the small “whip” 
tail carried almost horizontally. As a fowl for economic 
purposes the game fowl is of no value, as it is nowhere 
bred for market purposes, the hens not being good layers 
and the pugnacity of the cocks making them undesirable 
to the poultryman who seeks peaceable fowls. 
Game Class.—This class is composed of the following 
varieties: Black-Breasted Red, Brown Red, Golden Duck- 
wing, Silver Duckwing, Birchen, Red Pyle, White, Black. 
The Game Bantams included in this class are identical 
in name and color with the above. 
Black-Breasted Red Game.—This variety is without 
doubt the original variety of games. It is almost identi- 
eal in color with the Gallus Bankiva from which it prob- 
ably descended. The writer has seen a hen of Gallus 
Bankiva, which was mated with a Black-Breasted Red 
game cock, the chicks being good in color and vigor, the 
effect of the cross being perceptible only in the matter 
of the size of the chicks, which were smaller than the 
mother and larger than the sire. The cock of this va- 
riety has a bright red neck, red back and wing bows and 
a rather short, narrow tail of a greenish black. The 
breast is a brilliant black and the shanks are dark willow 
or nearly black. The hen has an orange or lemon-colored 
neck, each feather with a dull black stripe down the cen- 
ter of each feather. The breast is salmon red and the 
back a soft gravish-brown. The main tail and wing 
feathers are dull black. This variety is the favorite with 
