EUROPEAN BREEDS, 137 
over one or two years old with me invariably have a little 
white on sickles. I have corresponded with many breed- 
ers of this breed, and they invariably tél] the same expe- 
rience. In ‘‘ Lewis Wright’s Illustrated Poultry Book,” 
tt iis 
: 
yi 
Fig. 66.—WHITE DORKING FOWLS. 
the only portrait of a Silver-grav Dorking cock, which 
took cups at Crystal Palace, 1871: Dublin. 18/2, and at 
all the principal English shows, iias a white edge to the 
lower half of his sickle tail feathers. Hon. W. F. 
