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POULTRY CULTURE 



Fig. 5U. Stylish Single-Combed Brown 

 Leghorn cockerel^ 



these the male is roughly de- 

 scribed as having a black 

 breast, body, and tail, with 

 a red back, and the female as 

 brown. When details of color 

 are examined the males are 

 found to vary in the shade of 

 red, the narrow red feathers 

 of neck, hackle, and saddle 

 being sometimes striped with 

 black, and the red and black 

 in the wings being regularly 

 distributed, the longest flight 

 feathers nearly black, and red 

 or brown appearing usually 

 in a distinct line along the 

 outer edge of the narrower 

 outer web of each flight 

 feather, or in irregular and less 

 distinct patches in the broader 

 inner web. In the secondaries 



the black is found regularly on the inner web, not quite covering it ; the red, 



on the outer web and quill, and extending a little way on the inner web. The 



wing coverts are black, the wing bows 



red. In the darker varieties, as the 



Cornish Indian Game and the Redcap, 



the black tends strongly to encroach on 



the red areas. In the lighter varieties, as 



in the pullet-breeding Brown Leghorn 



males, the red tends strongly to encroach 



on the black. The object of the fancier 



is to keep the different colors distributed 



as exactly as possible in accordance with 



the Standard specifications. 



In the females of the black-red color 



type are found two styles of distribu- 

 tion of color. On the Brown Leghorn 



there is no regular pattern, but the dark 



brown appears as a fine, even stippling 



on the back and wings (except where 



there is black in the male), while the 



breast is a redder brown and the under part of the body an ashy brown. In 



females of the other varieties the Standard calls for a light brown or bay 



^ Owned by Grove Hill Poultry Yards, Waltham, Massachusetts. Photograph 

 by Schilling. 



Fig. 512. Stylish Single-Combed 

 Brown Leghorn Pullet 1 



