BREEDS DESCRIBED 
the Leghorns, but while the egg is very pretty and 
snow-white in color, it is considerably smaller than 
a Leghorn egg. The birds average a pound or so 
lighter in weight than the Leghorns, but have no 
Standard weights. Besides being too small for 
market purposes, their white skin and leaden-blue- 
colored legs are against them. The Silver Span- 
gled Hamburgs are the most widely bred of all 
the varieties in this family, and are usually con- 
sidered the most handsome. The three other most 
common varieties are the Golden Spangled, the 
Golden Penciled, and the Silver Penciled. The 
White Hamburgs and the Black Hamburgs are 
rarely bred. 
Andalusians. There is but one variety of the 
Andalusian family. This one has the unique dis- 
tinction of wearing the national colors—its face 
and.eyes being red, its ear-lobes white, and its 
plumage blue. In shape and size they are between 
the Leghorns and the Minorcas. In common with 
other breeds in this class, they are prolific layers 
of large white eggs; have large combs, and are 
non-sitters; legs slaty-blue in color. They are an 
old breed, but have never become popular and 
probably never will. 
Anconas are purely Mediterranean or Leghorn 
in type and general characteristics, the only varia- 
tion being in color, which is an evenly mottled 
black and white throughout. The birds are of 
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