TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 371 



Fig. 364. Silver Campine cockerel, owned by 

 M. R. Jacobus, Ridgefield, New Jersey 



that the stock may have 

 come from Turkey, birds of 

 exactly the same descrip- 

 tion having been observed 

 there by Aldrovandus. Bel- 

 gian tradition dates the 

 race in Belgium as far 

 back as the early part of 

 the thirteenth century, 

 four hundred years before 

 Aldrovandus. If this tra- 

 dition is true, it would 

 appear that the race has 

 been bred, in close con- 

 formity to the present type, 

 for at least seven hundred 

 years. Campines are about 

 the size of ordinary Leghorns, and are typically single-combed, 

 though it is said that rose combs sometimes occur. Their resemblance 

 to Penciled Hamburgs is so great 

 that a fancier, seeing the birds and 

 not knowing what they were called, 

 would unhesitatingly describe them 

 as Single-Combed Penciled Ham- 

 burgs. There are two color varie- 

 ties, Silver and Golden. In the 

 former both the male and the fe- 

 male are finely barred (or penciled) 

 with black and white, with white 

 hackle. The tail of the male is 

 black with small coverts more or 

 less barred or penciled. The Golden 

 variety has the same pattern as the 

 Silver, with the white replaced by 

 bay. About 1890 they were intro- 

 duced into England, and shortly after into America, where interest 

 in them proved very short-lived. Though developed more on Leg- 

 horn lines and with fixed color pattern, the Campine as first 



Fig. 365. Silver Campine pullet, 

 owned by M. R. Jacobus. (Photo- 

 graph by F. L. Sewell) 



