148 BREEDS. 



TMs delicately-beautiful variety demands the 

 same requisites in size and shape as the coloured ; 

 the plumage alone diflers — this must be of a 

 brilliant white, without the slightest admixture 

 of yellow ; the contrast of the deep scarlet comb, 

 wattles, pale yellow hill, legs, and snowj plumage, 

 make this bird the champion of its class, if seen 

 under a pure sky, and on a clean grass run. 



It is quite a mistake to suppose the white less 

 robust than the coloured Cochin ; they are vigor- 

 ous and hardy ; good layers, sitters, and mothers. 



The Partridge, the Black, and other varieties, 

 are almost identical with the Buffs in general 

 characteristics. 



The plumage, of course, differs. In the Par- 



