TYPES, BREEDS, AND VARIETIES OF FOWLS 391 



of brown eggs. The White 

 Langshan, too, adapted to 

 our requirements, might 

 easily have fitted into the 

 place which the perversion 

 of Brahma type was mak- 

 ing vacant, and, for a period 

 at least, might have been 

 of considerable economic 

 importance. 



Brahmas. Among the 

 early Asiatic fowls in Amer- 

 ica were some gray birds. 

 We have seen that in the 

 Cochins the modern fancier 

 retained the black-red color 

 pattern and developed three 

 plain colors, — buff, black, 

 and white. During the 

 period when names were 

 used with little discrimination the gray color types went by various 

 Asiatic names, such as Gray Chittagong, Brahmaputra, Cochin 

 China, etc. As known in Amer- 

 ica and England for over half a 

 century the Brahma has had two 

 color patterns described as "light" 

 and " dark," these descriptions 

 giving the names " Light Brahma" 

 and "Dark Brahma," by which the 

 varieties are designated. The his- 

 tory of the Light Brahma in this 

 country is given with great cir- 

 cumstantiality as beginning with 

 the finding, by a fancier, of speci- 

 mens of the breed on a sailing 

 vessel in New York harbor. This 



is entirely credible but does not „ „ ,„^. , ^ , 



■' . Fig. 387. White Langshan hen. (Pho- 



prove or even mdicate that the tograph from owner, Paul P. Ives) 



Fig. 386. White Langshan cock. {Photo- 

 graph from owner, Paul P. Ives, Guilford, 

 Connecticut) 



