TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 367 



to skin diseases, and after the Leghorns and Minorcas became 

 known, the Spanish gradually disappeared. 



White-Faced White Spanish 

 came occasionally as sports from 

 the black variety. 



Andaliisians (single-comb and 

 rose-comb) were first known as 

 the Blue Minorca. The color of 

 the female is a slaty blue laced 

 with darker blue. The color of 

 the male is the same as that of the 

 female on breast and body, with 

 wing flights blue, and the hackle, 

 back, saddle, and tail blue-black. 

 This color is produced some- 

 times (not regularly) by crossing 

 black and white birds, and in re- 

 production continuously produces 

 some black and some white, as 

 well as blue, specimens. In size 

 and shape the Andalusian is between the Leghorn and the Minorca. 

 As usually bred it is more of the 

 Leghorn than of the Minorca type. 

 American Standard weights are 

 cock, 6 pounds ; cockerel, 5 pounds ; 

 hen, 5 pounds ; pullet, 4 pounds. 

 The Andalusian has long been 

 known in England, but is a com- 

 paratively recent arrival in America. 

 Here it is a favorite with a few, 

 but is not generally popular, be- 

 cause of the uncertainty of color 

 in breeding. 



Other races of the Mediterranean 

 type. Throughout Europe there 

 are many races like the Mediter- 

 ranean (especially the Leghorn) type in form and size but unlike 

 it in the color of ■ the skin ; and though in many cases their 



Fig. 358- Blue Andalusian cock 



Fig. 359. Blue Andalusian pullet 



