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POULTRY CULTURE 



Fig. 339. Red-Laced Cornish Indian 



Game cockerel. (Photograph from 



owner, W. H. Card) 



Laying types. 



term " egg type " was defined, and 

 the Mediterranean, Dutch, and Polish 

 groups were mentioned as illustrations 

 of that type. These breeds are all of 

 the same general conformation and, 

 with a few exceptions, about the same 

 in size. The differences between them 

 are differences in color of plumage 

 and skin, and in development of head 

 appurtenances. Consideration of this 

 type as a whole shows that geographi- 

 cally it is a European type, — of all 

 Europe rather than of any part of it, 

 though superficial characters (as would 

 be expected) have been developed dif- 

 ferently by different peoples, and (as 

 will be shown) modifications in the 



connection between the game 

 type and the Brahma and Co- 

 chin types. In America they 

 are of the black-red pattern. 

 The modem Exhibition 

 Game was developed from the 

 English type of pit game, with 

 probably some infusion of Malay 

 blood. The prominent charac- 

 teristic of this type is the ex- 

 aggerated length of neck and 

 legs. The standard colors are 

 black-red, brown-red, golden 

 duckwing, silver duckwing, 

 birchen, red pile, white, and 

 black. In common with most 

 other types which have some 

 feature greatly exaggerated, 

 they are at present somewhat 

 out of favor with poultrymen. 

 In Chapter V the 



Fig. 340. Exhibition Game hen 

 owned by W. H. Mudge, Wes- 

 terly, Rhode Island 



