128 Domestic ANIMALS. 
have large, single, serrated combs, the top running considerably 
beyond its point of attachment to the head. His neck is about 
nine inches long, and is somewhat arched; wings short, round- 
ed outward, their shoulders concealed in the breast-feathers, 
and their tips covered by the body-feathers and the saddle- 
hackle. His breast is broad, but wanting in fullness; the 
thighs are wide apart, large, comparatively short, smooth in 
Fig. 86. 
Tae SHancuat Fow.. 
some, in others heavily feathered quite down to the knees; 
shanks should be short, and, with the booted, more or less 
feathered down the outer edge, quite to the end of the outer 
toe; the stern is densely covered with long downy feathers, 
technically called “fluff,” well rounded out; the hackle, both 
of neck and saddle, is long and abundant; while the tail is 
short and sometimes covered by the long saddle-feathers. . The 
