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tail, primary and secondary wing feathers, should be pure black. 

 The brood hen for such a cock should be a dark partridge colour, 

 bright red hackle above, black beneath, clean brick breasted, and 

 such to the posterior. In both sexes the eye, beak, and legs are 

 black, and the face that dark red, which is known as " gipsy face." 

 These are supposed to be the purest strain of game fowls, and no 

 birds had a higher reputation in the pit. It was from this breed 

 that Dr. Bellyse produced his celebrated brown-breasted reds, by 

 crossing them with the piles of Cheshire. 



BLACK-BEEASTED DAEK EEDS. 



This strain is closely allied to the above, the principal difference 

 being that the eyes, beak, and legs were dark, instead of black, and 

 the hackle generally striped with black ; the flight feathers are all 

 black or " crow- winged." 



Sant, a Derbyshire breeder, noted for breeding, and supplying a 

 large number of good cocks, bred mostly birds of this colour ; they 

 are described in a work, published at the beginning of the century, 

 as "a very dark blackred, striped uncommonly black upon the 

 neck, black beak and legs, very lofty, and fought at high weights. 

 The dark reds of Col. Mellish were also noted about that time. 



STEEAKY BEEASTED GINGBE EEDS. 



These birds differ from the black-breasted in not having the blue 

 bar across the wing, which instead is of a light bay, the breast is 

 streaked with brown, and the hackle and saddle a ginger red; 

 the hens are a light reddish colour, eyes red, yellow, or daw, and 

 yellow legs. 



BEOWN BEEASTED BEOWNEEDS. 



The above is one of the greatest favourites with sportsmen, 

 indeed, I may say that after black breasted reds, they are generally 

 the most popular. Dr. Bellyse, who throughout his long life was 

 invincible in the cock-pit, produced them by crossing the true black 

 red with the yellow legged piles of Cheshire. The cock should be 

 a rich brown in breast, hackle, shoulders, and saddle ; tail and 

 primaries black, the hackle striped black. Sometimes the hackle is 

 a rich orange colour, striped with black, a'nd dark orange shoulders, 

 they are then known as brown breasted orange reds ; the brown 

 breasted dark reds have dark red hackles, &c. There are many 



