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culture did it attract special attention. Since then it has become the 

 leading variety, being extensively kept as a pure race and also every- 

 where used to grade up inferior stocks. Crosses with wild stock 

 are made at intervals by many breeders of Bronze Turkeys. In 

 color the male and female are alike, except that the color tone of 



Fig. 459. Bronze Turkey hen. (Photograph by E.J. Hall) 



the female is more sober. The soft feathers are dull black or bronze, 

 the wide, nearly straight tips crossed with a wide black band, next 

 to which, at the tip, is a narrower band of white. The different 

 widths of these bands and of the bronze tints in different sections 

 give varying color effects. The long feathers of the wings and tail 

 are barred black, or brown, and white ; the tips of the tail feathers 

 are banded like the body plumage. 



The Narragansett Turkey is probably most correctly described 

 as a race produced by improvement of stock somewhat degenerated 

 in domestication. It originated and has been bred chiefly in Rhode 



