TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 359 



Fig. 346. Single-Comb White Leghorn cock 

 (Photograph by E. J. Hall) 



generally had reddish 

 hackles, backs, and 

 saddles. Though re- 

 ports of exhibitions 

 every year described 

 males quite perfect in 

 color, it was about 

 1900 before males of 

 a uniform shade of 

 buff were produced. 

 The rose-combed va- 

 riety was developed in 

 America, apparently 

 by crossing with the 

 Rose-Combed White 

 Leghorn. 



White Leghorns 

 (single-comb and rose- 

 comb). The single- 

 combed variety was 



developed in this country contemporaneously with the brown and 

 black varieties, attracting less attention than the brown at first, but 

 later becoming more popular 

 with specialists in egg produc- 

 tion. The color of the plumage 

 is white throughout, — naturally 

 a creamy white, the dazzling 

 white seen in the exhibition 

 room being secured (except in 

 rare cases) only by washing or 

 bleaching the feathers. In its 

 relation to other varieties the 

 White Leghorn represented the 

 last stage in the reduction of 

 the color of the black-red fowl 

 of the initial type, the sev- o- 1 r k w^v t 1, 



.. , . Fig. 347. Single-Comb White Leghorn 



eral intermediate stages being hen. (Photograph from owner, Harmon 

 brown, red, buff, white. Bradshaw, Lebanon, Indiana) 



