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are more difficult to breed true to color in plumage. The ground 

 color of the Silver is white, in the Golden it is yellow. 



Both varieties were admitted to the American Standard in 

 1893, but through lack of interest in the breeds, due chiefly to 

 the absence of a uniform size, shape, and color, they were dropped 

 in 1898. These defects, if they should be termed such, did not 



Fig. 23. — White Aseels. 



make the fowls any the less valuable for utility purposes, but 

 the early importations were too crude and indefinite for the 

 American fancier. 



Even at this date their color qualifications are open to argu- 

 ment, though in the past ten years they have been greatly im- 

 proved and standardized, especially by the English breeders. 



