DUAL PURPOSE BREEDS 315 



The American, English, and French Classes. — The 



members of this group are active but not nervous ; are 

 fair to good foragers ; feathered more loosely than the 

 breeds of Group I ; good to excellent sitters and mothers ; 

 are not so precocious as Group I, seldom reaching maturity 

 before six to seven months. As a group they are average to 



Fig. 109. — A White Legliorn. 



good layers of fair-sized brown-shelled eggs, though some 

 individuals of highly specialized strains have made wonder- 

 ful egg records. The members of this group originated in 

 either America, England, or France, but in all cases have 

 been thoroughly Americanized. 



The breeds of this group, already enumerated under 

 dual purpose breeds, are of medium size and stockily built. 

 The shapes of the several breeds in this group when viewed 

 from the side vary from almost round to rectangular, and 



