140 BREEDS. 



pheasants, being so quiet in their movements, 

 and attentive to their young. 



The exhibition points are as follows: — 

 Cock — Tail, full and black; neck and saddle 

 hackles, silvery-white; breast, black or spotted 

 with white; thighs, black, or as nearly so as pos- 

 sible ; form, squarely built, and broad across the 

 chest; legs, very short, not above one inch and 

 a-half in length, free from feathers, and white in 

 colour; comh, rose, double and pointed at the 

 back, bright scarlet, as are also the wattles, which 

 should be long and pendulous, almost touching 

 the ground; ear-lobes, red. 



Hen — A.^-backed, salmon-6reas<ecZ, silver- 

 hackled; in other points similar to the cock. 

 The general carriage is heavy, and gait waddling. 

 The extreme shortness of leg gives them the 

 appearance of swimming on dry land. 



