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variety, with a ground of golden bay 

 instead of white. 



White Wyandottes were produced 

 as sports from the Hghter specimens 

 of the early silver-laced variety, and 

 also (it may safely be presumed) by 

 every cross that promised a rose- 

 combed white fowl of this general 

 type. In fact, for a long time after 

 the variety was introduced, any rose- 

 combed white fowl with yellow legs 

 that was larger than an ordinary Leg- 

 horn was offered, and often passed, 

 as a White Wyandotte. The stock, 

 as introduced in 1885 by Reverend 

 B.M.Briggs, then of Wyandale, New 

 York, was of Silver- Laced Wyandotte origin. The very heavy- 

 bodied, dark-egg strains of some years later bore unmistakable 



Fig. 411. White Wyandotte pullet, 

 owned by A. G. Duston, South 

 Framingham, Massachusetts. (Pho- 

 tograph by Sewell) 



traces of Light Brahma blood, 

 time and wide distribution of 

 the best stocks has gradually 

 produced great uniformity of 

 type. After the Barred Plym- 

 outh Rock, the White Wyan- 

 dotte became the most popular 

 variety in America ; and within 

 ten years of its introduction it 

 was regarded 'as a dangerous 

 rival of the Barred Plymouth 

 Rock. Had the competition 

 been between the Barred Plym- 

 outh Rock and the White Wy- 

 andotte alone, the latter would 

 have led in the end, but the 

 White Wyandotte had to divide 

 with the White Plymouth Rock 

 the favor of those who wanted 

 a white fowl of its class. 



As with other American varieties 



Fig. 412. White Wyandotte cockerel, 



owned by J. W. Andrews, Dighton, 



Massachusetts 



