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being thereby greatly increased; it may be remarked that this offensive organ it 

 often present is the softer sex. 



"In the hen, the form, making due allowance for the difference of sex and 

 alteration of plumage, resembles that of the cock. The head is neater, the face 

 lean and thin. The small, thin comb should be low in front, evenly serrated, and 

 perfectly erect. The deaf-ear and wattles should be small. The neck, from the 

 absence of hackle feathers, looks longer and more slender than that of her mate. 

 The tail feathers should be held closely together, and not spread out like a fan, 

 as is not unfrequentljr stated. The p!omage should be so close that the form of 

 the wing should be distinctly visible, the outline not being hidden by the feath- 

 ers of the body." i 



The Slach-breaMed Reck, perhaps, most nearly resemble the original Game fowl. 

 In the cocks of this variety the breast and thighs are bluish black, with glossy 

 reflections; the tail greenish black; the hackle and saddle orange red; the 

 shoulder coverts dark red In the hens the general coloj; is a rich partridge 

 brown, with a red fawn-colored breast, and reddish-golden hackle with dark 

 stripes. (See illustration, page 95.) 



The Srowrirbreaated Reds. — The breast and thighs should be of a brown-red 

 color, but this variety is not so uniform in color as the black-reds ; the tail is a 

 greenish black; the hackle striped with black, and the wing often crossed with 

 a glossy green bar. The general color of the hen is very dark brown ; grained 

 or pencilled with lighter brown ; her neok-hackle a dark golden copper-red, 

 thickly striped with dark stripes; jand her comb and face darker than the cooks', 

 and his are darker than those of the black reds. 



The Oinger-Reds differ but little from the Brown-reds except in the color of the 

 breast, which is a ginger-red color in the cock, growing darker upon the thighs, 

 and in the hen is yellowish brown around the throat, with a narrow margin of a 

 lighter shade, and dusky brown lower down, with a narrow mai-gin of a golden 

 ginger shade. 



The YeUow Duchwmgt have black breast, legs and tail in the cocks ; with straw 

 colored head, hackle and saddle ; and bright copper or maroon colored back. 

 In the hen the head is gray ; neck, white, striped with black ; back, bluish or 

 slaty-gray; breast salmon-red, shading off to ashy-gray towards the thighs; tail, 

 dark gray. 



The Silver Duchwings cocks have silvery white heads, hackle and backs; and 

 the hens silvery gray on the same parts, both being in other parts colored like 

 the Yellow Dnckwings. (See illustration, page 101.) 



The Red PUe cocks have red heads, necks and backs, with white breasts, legs 

 and tails; and the hens have chestnut-red necks and backs, breasts the same in 

 front, shadmg to white below, white wings and tails. 



In the WhUe Piles, the neck and saddle are mainly white in the cock, but 

 famtly penciled ; the back light-red ; the tail white. In the hen the neck, back, taU 

 andthighs are white; the breast chestnut color; theprimary and secondary wing 

 feathers white. (See iUustration, page 107.) 



TTAiJ. Games are pure white in both sexes, and-should have no admixture of 

 straw color. 



Blcu^ Games are of a metaUic black color in both sexes. 



