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wing feathers slate colour. The hen should be slate colour, laced 

 with gold on breast, and having a golden striped hackle ; eye, beak, 

 and legs to match cock. 



The dun breasted yellow dun is a dun fowl, with light yellow, 

 hackle and saddle, and reddish yellow shoulders ; in other respects 

 dun. 



BLACKS. 



The black cocks of Lord de Vere were noted, and continued in 

 great notoriety when afterwards bred by Mr. Thomas Wilson, of 

 Burton, Staffordshire. He describes them as " a perfect jet black, 

 gipsy faced, black legs, rather elegant than muscular, lofty in their 

 manner of fighting, close in their feather and well shaped." True 

 Blacks require no further description than black entirely free from 

 any other colour, and having black beaks, legs, and eyes, and gipsy 

 faces. 



Black breasted brassy winged are the Same as above, except 

 that the cocks have a patch of flame colour on each wing. They 

 often have red faces and eyes, and their legs should be bronze. 



Black breasted Furnaces, with dark eyes and legs, have golden 

 coloured feathers across the shoulders, vary in shade, and are 

 supposed to resemble a furnace ; the colour is supposed to resemble 

 flames of fire rising from a coal or black ground colour; black 

 breast and saddle, body fiery red, often tinging hackle and wing, 

 and some of the hens often show a little gold on some of the 

 shoulder feathers ; in other respects black. These birds were 

 sometimes bred with bright yellow legs. 



Black breasted Polecats. — These are black, but have more red 

 than Furnaces and of a lighter shade, sometimes extending to the 

 hackle and saddle. The hens are dark, or black with hackle to 

 match the cock. 



WHITES. 



Some of the whites possess a longer pedigree than most breeds 

 of game. The names of Molineauxes, Cholmondeley's, and Eaylances 

 were well known to old breeders for the excellence of their white 

 breed of games. The purest strains had white legs and beaks and 

 pearl eyes, but many of the whites now have red eyes, and some- 

 times yellow legs, which is quite allowable. 



They are usually small, and most white fowls appear softer 

 in feather than some others at the present time ; care in breeding 



