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tridge the hackles should be reddish-yellow, free 

 from dark stains ; tail and breast, black 



The hens have dark pencillings on the hackles, 

 and are generally richly coloured. 



The legs are rather of a deeper tint in the 

 Yellow, than in the Buff variety, especially in 

 the cocks. 



A " white feather " in any of these is as fatal 

 to the Cochin, as it is to those that show it, in 

 another school The Black variety is seldom "as 

 black as it is painted." 



The cocks too often show the yellow hackle; 

 good Blacks are decidedly scarce, in spite of 

 Mrs Beecher Stowe. 



There are Cuckoo and Silky Cochins, but of 

 these the "Henwife" knows little, and therefore 

 must be held excused in not entering into their 

 merits; the more, as she thinks them only a par- 

 ticular fancy, and not likely to further the in- 

 terests of poultry. 



