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A Flook'of Pekin Ducks. Fowls on the Range. Poultry Students 

 Holding an Exhibition on the Street FTontispiece 



1. Nomenclature Diagram of Male 4 



2. Shanks and Feet 7 



3. Different Kinds of Comb 8 



4. Sections of a Feather 9 



5. Laced Feather 9 



6. Spangled Feather 9 



7. Penciling, Crescentic Form 9 



8. Penciling, Parallel Form 10 



9. Barred Feather 10 



10. Striped Neck (Hackle) Feather, Male 11 



1 1 . Black Langshans 16 



12. Single Comb Black Minorcas 16 



13. Buff Cochins 17 



14. Single Comb Buff Leghorns 17 



1.5. Buff Plymouth Rocks 18 



16. Single Comb Buff Orpingtons 18 



17. White Plymouth Rocks 19 



18. Single Comb White Orpingtons 19 



19. Single Comb White Leghorns 20 



20. White Wyandottes .20 



21. Light Brahmas 21 



22. Dark Brahmas 21 



23. Barred Plymouth Rocks 22 



24. Silver Wyandottes 22 



25. Single Comb Rhode Island Reds 23 



26. Cornish 23 



27. Partridge Cochins 24 



28. Single Comb Brown Leghorns 24 



29. Houdans 25 



30. Silver Spangled Hamburgs 25 



31. Children Describing Breeds and Varieties 26 



The Jungle Fowl 27 



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