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and color to the Standard Exhibition Games of the same names. The 
Standard weights for Game Bantams are:— cocks, 22 ozs.; cockerels, 20 
ozs.; hens, 20 ozs.; pullets, 18 ozs. Game Bantams are generally hardy, 
fair layers, fond. of being handled and petted. The Black Breasted Red is 
the most common and popular variety, though all the varieties mentioned are 
so generally bred that they are not anywhere unfamiliar to persons interested 
in fancy fowls. 
Malay Game Bantams, which resemble Malay Games, are rare. 
320. Sebright Bantams.— There are two varieties, the Golden and the 
Silver, differing only in the ground color of the plumage, which is in the 
former a golden yellow, and in the latter a 
silvery white. Each feather is laced with 
a narrow edge of black. Sebright Bantams 
have rose combs, slate colored legs and.toes. 
A peculiarity of the breed is that the males 
are ‘*hen feathered ;”— that is, instead of 
having the flowing hackle and saddle feathers 
and abundant tails, as is usual in male fowls, 
the Standard Sebright Bantam male has. 
plumage differing from that of the female 
only in that the two upper tail feathers may 
be slightly curved at the ends. The produc- 
tion of such plumage on males is abnormal, 
and, as is usually the case when individuals 
of one sex assume characters of the opposite 
sex, the ‘* best” Stazdard males are often partly or wholly infertile and 
worthless as breeders. Consequently the breeders of Sebright Bantams often 
find it necessary to use in the breeding pens males having plumage too much 
like that common to male fowls to admit of their being shown in the exhibition 
room. Sebrights are among the most popular varieties of bantams, and are 
fairly hardy. : 
Pig. 86. Exhibition Game and White Crested 
White Polish Bantams. 
321. Rose Combed Bantams.— Of these there are two varieties, the 
White and the Black, the Whites pure white, with white or yellow legs; the 
Blacks brilliant black, with black or dark lead colored legs. Both varieties 
are quite common, and fairly hardy. The Standard weights are the same 
as for Sebrights. 
322. Booted White Bantams.— All white, single combed, shanks and 
outer toes heavily feathered, prominent vulture hocks; weights as for Sebrights. 
This variety might be mistaken by one not familiar with the different breeds, 
