TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 349 



The English Game, by some now called Thorojighbred Game, 

 is the type of fighting game familiar nearly everywhere among 

 English-speaking peoples. It is a larger bird than the Aseel (the 

 males sometimes weighing 6 and 7 pounds), has longer plumage, 

 and abundant tail and hackle in the male, and is a more symmetri- 

 cal bird, more alert, and generally more attractive. This race is of 

 many colors, black-reds ^ and brown-reds being most abundant. 

 Some stocks have been bred to a fixed color pattern, others have 



Fig. 333. Three-quarters rear view of 

 bird in Fig. 332 



Fig. 334. Three-quarters front view of 

 bird in Fig. 332 " 



not. The comb is small and single. But for the pugnacity of the 

 males, which develops at a surprisingly early age, they make very 

 good fowls for either a farm or family flock, — not as good as 

 special utility breeds but much better than ordinary mongrel stock. 

 The hens are good layers and especially good sitters and mothers, 

 being noted for the courage with which they defend their young. 

 As table fowls they are meaty but rather close-grained and hard. 



1 Short for "black-breasted red," a description applied to the cock of this 

 color type, though as a matter of fact the typically colored male is all black ex- 

 cept the neck and back, which are red, and would be more correctly described as 

 " red-backed black." ^ Photographs for Figs. 331-334 from owner. 



