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Fig. 540. Model Single-Combed White 

 Leghorn cockerel ^ 



tail coverts black with clean edge or lacing 

 in the flights, with one web black in 

 the secondaries, but no black show- 

 ing when the wing is folded. A little 

 black ticking in the saddle near the 

 tail was tolerated in an Exhibition 

 male and considered desirable in a 

 male for breeding. Recently, a darker 

 type of Light Brahma has sometimes 

 been given preference. In this type 

 males have very heavy striping in 

 the hackle, and have the striping in 

 the saddle extending well up to the 

 cape, making the back almost the 

 same as in Dark Brahma and Silver 

 Wyandotte males. This corresponds 

 with the popular type of Columbian 

 Wyandotte. Whether this type will 



Wyandotte, Columbian Plymouth 

 Rock, and, in more crude form, 

 of the less popular Lakenvelder. 

 This color pattern appears as the 

 elimination of black from the 

 surface of the body plumage of 

 a silver-laced or silver-penciled 

 type, leaving the bird white with 

 black in the wing flights and tail 

 and a black stripe in the hackle. 

 As has been stated, the Light and 

 Dark varieties of the Brahma 

 were not clearly differentiated 

 when brought from China. The 

 early Light Brahmas showed a 

 great deal of black or gray on 

 the back, breast, and body. For 

 many years the ideal of Light 

 Brahma breeders was a white 

 fowl with neck-hackle cleanly 

 striped with black ; tail black, 

 of white ; wing black or nearly black 



Fig. 541. Model Single-Combed White 

 Leghorn pullet ^ 



but not white, was adequate. With the appearance of Wyandottes and Plymouth 

 Rocks of the same color type, " light" no longer answers for a general description 

 of the color, while the name "Columbian" has no appropriateness whatever. 

 Every other variety of these breeds having a name descriptive of its color, the 

 appropriate names for these are Ermine Wyandotte and Ermine Plymouth Rock. 

 1 Photograph from owner, Harmon Bradshaw, Lebanon, Indiana. 



