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specimens had fixed breed 

 character. The most that 

 may be inferred from the 

 fact is that several speci- 

 mens more or less closely 

 approximating this attrac- 

 tive color pattern were 

 found in a lot of fowls on 

 the vessel. Both printed 

 and oral accounts of early 

 breeders of Asiatics agree 

 that the reproduction of 

 color was uncertain and, 

 further, that the type of 

 comb was not fixed. Light 

 and Dark Brahmas came 

 from the same parents, 

 and with them, sometimes, 

 came fowls of other colors. 

 Some of the fowls had 

 single combs, but the pea 



comb seems to have been most prevalent, and, being a feature 



which might be used to make 



differentiation between Cochin 



and Brahma more pronounced, 



was adopted as the correct type 



of comb. 



Dark Brahmas. While the 



Light Brahma was from the first 



more popular than the Dark, and 



consequently came to be regarded 



as the principal variety, it is 



through'the dark variety that it is 



most plainly connected with the 



Cochin forms of the type. But 



for its pea comb the Dark Brahma 



is a Silver-Penciled Cochin, — a p,^ ,3^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ ,p^^^„. 



Partridge Cochin changed from graph from F. w. Rogers) 



Fig. 388. Dark Brahma cock. (Photograph 

 from F. W. Rogers, Brockton, Massachusetts) 



