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the Cochin type on the one hand, and the Langshan type on the other, are to 
be avoided. The comb should be well developed, but firm, well set, the 
three divisions and the serrations well defined. Particular attention should 
be given to the combs of females. These are so small that inconspicuous 
irregularities in them are often overlooked. These same inconspicuous 
irregularities, wrinkles and poorly marked divisions and serrations, are very 
unsightly when they reappear much magnified in the male offspring. The 
head should be broad and strong, with projecting, beetle brows. The neck 
neither so long as to give the bird a gawky look, nor so short as to make it 
look dumpy; the breast broad, full, well rounded; the back broad, narrower 
across the saddle than at the shoulders, but not conspicuously so, flat across 
the shoulders, medium in length; deep bodies, well spread tails; legs to 
correspond with neck in length, set well apart; shanks well feathered on the 
outside, and outer and middle toes well feathered. 
The common color fault is weakness in black points, too little black, and 
that not of good quality. The black should be clear and bright, with 
metallic sheen; the hackle striped exactly as described in the Standard; the 
primaries black in the male, nearly black in the female. [The Standard 
allows a zear/y black wing in males, and a wing just more than half black 
in females,— but to produce first class specimens of the type popular, black 
wings in males and in females nearly black must be used]. The main tail 
feathers and inner row of coverts should be free from white, the outer coverts 
edged with white. Black may be conspicuous in the foot feathering, but is 
discredited in the back. The under color should be an even bluish white. 
Old fowls that lose little black in moulting are especially valuable as breeders. 
219. Mating Dark Brahmas.— A double mating system, in which 
both matings are ‘‘ Standard” matings, is used. The Standard calls for a 
breast, ‘‘black or black slightly frosted with white,” in males. Males with 
black breasts are used with Standard females for the cockerel mating, and 
males with frosted breasts with Standard pullets for the pullet mating. 
220. Mating Partridge Cochins. — Both systems of mating are used; 
the single mating of Standard birds; the special cockerel mating Standard 
males to females as dark as the Standard allows; the pullet mating light 
colored males with brown or red in breast to light colored Standard females. 
The remarks on Light Brahma shape apply generally to Cochins. The 
Cochin has not the broad skull and overhanging brows; but aside from that, 
the differences in form are chiefly due to differences in length and density of 
plumage. 
221. Mating Colored Indian Games. — Double matings are used: for 
cockerels, Standard males with dark females, not well penciled; for pullets, 
laced males (the Standard male is not laced) with Standard females. 
