The "New Native" Type of Indian 

 Runners 



CHAPTER XV. 



For many years, English breeders have diligently sought to 

 find the original home of the Runners. Some of us have known 

 for quite a period that Mr. J. W. Walton of the British Club was 

 working on some specially imported Runners, supposed to have 

 been found by him in India. After uniting this new blood with 

 that of the best White-egg Cumberland Runners (the best de- 

 scendants of the early type in England) Mr. Walton began to 

 advertise in the United States "new blood direct from the native 

 Indian source." He showed his original imported birds, in part, 

 at the great Crystal Palace show in 1910, when they created a 

 real sensation, as reported in the best English Poultry prints. 

 These birds are now rather widely known as the "Fairy Fawns." 

 A German editor said that they were worth going over to England 

 to see, if there had been no other birds at the Palace. As the 

 Germans prize their own Runners very highly, this is really un- 

 exampled praise. 



The union of the blood of this stock with the best of the old- 

 er Cumberland type, which has often been called "Fairy Fawn 

 stock," should more strictly be known as "Cumberland-Fairy 

 Fawn." This shows in the name the union of blood. It is not a 

 cross, but the union of two good Runner blood lines. In type, 

 this Fairy Fawn progeny is in Mr. Walton's view, "the fanciers 

 ideal." But, unfortunately, coming as they doubtless did from 

 wild or semi-wild conditions, they vary somewhat, and give bot'i 

 white and green eggs. 



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