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standard, which were nearly perfect, steel-gray pullets 
in their first year mated to a cockerel, metallic-black in 
breast and thighs, medium dark beak, hackle and sad- 
dle, broad in the black stripe and decided in shade. 
This mating should be made in pro- 
ducing the male line. 
Mating No. 2. Hens that were 
fine as pullets but have become \ 
bronze-hued as fowls mated to a 
cockerel with a black breast, evenly 
dotted with minute white spots, 
black thighs, hackle and saddle well 
striped, and medium dark beak. 
PARTRIDGE Cocuins. — Mating 
No. 1. Cockerel weighing ten to 
eleven pounds, hackle and saddle 
rich bay, the black in the same-being 
metallic greenish-black, and broad 
in the stripe, metallic-black breast 
and thighs, fluff showing a bronze 
tinge, indicative of rich, brown blood. 
Hens are described in the standard. 
This mating is the best that can be 
made for the male progeny. 
Mating No. 2. Cock weighing 
eleven to twelve pounds, and of the 
same color as described for cockerel 
in Mating No. 1. Pullets large in 
size, and in color reddish-brown 
ground penciled with a deep brown, pparuna or LIGHT 
with standard neck and tail. This BRAHMA COCK, 
mating will produce finer females than males. 
Burr Cocuins.—The mating most to be coveted 
- would be a cock of one even reddish-buff color from 
head to tail, with no white undercolor in him; his tail 
black, tipped out with chestnut; the coverts chestnut, 
FIG. 97. HACKLE 
