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THE MARBLE BEEASTED SPANGLED PILE. 



The breast in these birds should be marbled, or spotted with 

 red or sometimes black ; the hackle and saddle red, white at 

 roots of feathers, with a few tips of white (and sometimes a little 

 black), shoulders red, tail white, ticked more or less with black ; 

 these birds have a parti-coloured or piebald appearance, and to 

 admirers of those colours are handsome ; the hens are a fawn colour 

 speckled with white, and both sexes have white legs and beaks, and 

 red eyes, the white spangles should be as even as possible throughout. 



GINGEE BEEASTED YELLOW PILE. 



The breast ginger or tawny in colour, yellowish red hackle and 

 saddle, red shoulders, white flights, and tail mostly white. These 

 are rarely bred now, and are not so handsome as some of the other 

 varieties ; yellow eyes, beaks and legs. These are considered by 

 some the original piles, 



DUNS. 



There are no more celebrated strains of fowls than the various 

 strains of Dun. Sir Francis Boynton, Mr. Elwes (one of whose red 

 duns won the extraordinary number of twenty-seven battles), and 

 that great cocker and soldier, Col. Mellish, bred some of the finest 

 ever seen. They are particularly hard and workmanlike in appear- 

 ance, and the hens have a very neat, trim, and gamey look. 



The dun breasted dun, with dark eyes, legs, and beak, seems to 

 require no further description. The colour should be level and 

 uniform, and the hen whole coloured to match. 



The dun breasted blue dun, the hackle, saddle, shoulders, and 

 primaries should be a dark blue, the remaining portion dun ; the 

 breast is sometimes laced with dark bluish edgings to each feather. 

 The hen should be dun, the hackle a shade darker than the rest, 

 and is sometimes laced throughout with dark blue edgings to the 

 feathers. These laced birds, when of good, sound colour, should be 

 better known, as they are extremely pleasing. 



The streaky breasted red dun is perhaps the most popular of all 

 the birds of this colour ; cocks — beak and legs dark, eyes dark red, 

 breast slate colour, with edging of gold on, each feather, or striped 

 gold colour ; hackle golden red, shading golden towards the bottom, 

 striped with dark stripes, shoulders clear darkish red, saddle 

 feathers red gold colour, striped with slate, tail and secondary 



