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Jubilee of Queen Victoria, — 

 hence the name. The variety 

 is said to have been produced 

 in the same way as the Buff 

 Orpington stock of the orig- 

 inator, but with speckled in- 

 stead of Dark Dorkings. The 

 color is a mixture of black, 

 brown, and white (such as has 

 always occurred occasionally in 

 flocks of mixed colors) ; this 

 variety was bred with the pur- 

 pose of securing uniform dis- 

 tribution of the several colors, 

 and a more pleasing eifect 

 than a nondescript pattern. 



Spangled Orpingtons (single- 

 and rose-comb) are black-and- 

 white mottled fowls said by 

 the originator to have been produced by a mingling of Dark Dork- 

 ing, Barred Plymouth Rock, and Silver 

 Spangled Hamburg ; they are declared 

 by other English authorities to be identi- 

 cal with the Speckled Sussex. Spangled 

 Orpingtons were introduced to the pub- 

 lic in 1899. 



Fig. 436. Single-Combed Buff Orpington 

 cock, a very meaty specimen ^ 



Note. These six breeds (the Plymouth Rock, 

 Java, Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red, Buckeye, 

 and Orpington), with some thirty varieties and 

 subvarieties, furnish, in the standard size, weight, 

 and shape of body of each, all gradations be- 

 tween the Leghorn laying type and the Asiatic 

 meat type ; in combs, all the principal styles ; in 

 colors and color patterns, almost all the distinct 

 types found in other classes of fowls. Taking 

 any one of these varieties, as the different stocks 

 and as the birds in the flocks run, we find in it specimens of most (sometimes 

 all) of the other types, and all the intermediate sizes and forms. Not only so, 



^ Photographs, Figs. 436-439 from owner, J. W. Clark, Cainsville, Ontario. 



Fig. 437. Single-Combed 

 Buff Orpington hen 



