78 POULTRY-CRAFT. 
neighbors have, a consideration with some who keep poultry for pleasure, can 
get it in the Orpington. There are three established varieties: — BLAck, 
WuireE, and Burr. In each variety there are single combed and rose combed 
sub-varieties. 
GAMES. 
92. Exhibition Games.— Fig. 75.— Pit Games. — There are two dis- 
tinct types of Game fowls. The exhibi- 
tion type is a bird very long in legs and 
neck, with stilted, crane-like carriage. 
The Pit Game is shorter in the leg, heavier 
in body, and a much better fowl] for prac- 
tical purposes. In sections where cock- 
fighting still prevails flocks of Games are 
kept for domestic purposes quite as often 
as flocks of any other breed. They are 
rated hardy; average layers of white or 
tinted eggs; are sitters; flesh makes fairly 
good poultry, but a trifle hard. Games 
cannot be considered as rivals of popular 
economic breeds. The color types in Pit 
Games are not well defined. They can 
hardly be classed as varieties. The Stand- 
wie 
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Fig. 75. Exhibition Game Cock. ee ks 
(By courtesy of A. E. Blunck). ard varieties of Exhibition Games are: 
Brack BreasTeD Rep, Brown Rep, GOLDEN Duckwine, SILVER Duck- 
winc, Rep PyLz, Wuirte, Buack, and BircHEN. 
93. Cornish Indian Games.— Not 
very hardy; meat breed ; they are ordinary 
to poor layers of tinted eggs; sitters; pea 
combs; red ear lobes; yellow skin and 
legs ; Standard weights, cock g lbs., cock- 
erel 7% lbs., hen 6% lbs., pullet 514 lbs. ; 
are very full in the breast, and broad at 
the shoulders; back, convex instead of 
flat or concave, as in most other breeds. 
There are two varieties, the Dark, (Fig. 
76), and the WuiTE, (Fig. 77); —the 
former, in color, a very dark black red 
(crimson) ; the Standard requires in the 
female plumage with bay ground double 
— or triple — laced with black. Usually 
these markings are not well defined. 
Fig. 76. Dark Indian Game Hen, 
(By courtesy of Adam Thompson), 
