A GUIDE FOR KEEPERS OF POULTRY of 
game fanciers, and is bred to great perfection in this 
country, although it is strictly an exhibition fowl and 
there is not probably a single poultry farm in this country 
where any game variety is kept for market purposes. 
The Black-Breasted Red hen lays a tinted egg, not 
large. She is not counted as one of the good layers, 
but is among the best mothers, as she will fight for her 
young to the death. The writer has seen a game hen 
attack and drive away a hawk which swooped down on 
a flock of poultry and tried to carry away a chick, al- 
though the chick was not a member of the brood owned 
by the militant hen. While some of the friends of the 
Brown Leghorn are inclined to deny that game blood has 
ever been introduced into that variety, there is no doubt 
that Black-Breasted Red game blood was introduced 
many years ago. This is shown by the willow legs that 
a few years ago were often found in Leghorn females, in 
the occasional appearance of a yellowish tint in the eggs 
of Brown Leghorns. 
Brown Red Games are probably close relatives of the 
Black-Breasted Reds. The cock has a lemon yellow neck, 
each feather striped with black, back and saddle lemon, 
the saddle striped with black; breast black, the feathers 
laced with lemon; shoulders, primaries and tail black. 
The thighs are black and the shanks willow or dark 
willow. The female is dull black except the hackle, 
which is lemon striped with black, and the breast, which 
has a lemon lacing around the feathers. The thighs and 
shanks are nearly black. 
Golden Duckwing Games are generally of a golden yel- 
low color with black breast, body, primaries and tail. 
Silver Duckwing Games are like the Golden Duckwing 
in color markings, but the colors are silvery white and 
