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The Black-Breasted Birchen-Duckwings are the products of a cross between the Black-Breasted Red, the 
Yellow-Birchen, and Silver-Duckwing hens. Yellow legs, red eyes, and a dark birchen colour across the 
shoulders define this breed ; in other respects they resemble the Golden-Duckwing. 
Black-Breasted Silver-Duckwings. — This beautiful breed was originally crossed with the Uorking to obtain 
the present Silver-Grey strain in the Doyking ; not, as generally supposed, the Dorking being used in the 
production of the Silver-Duckwing Game. They should have red eyes ; the cock being a glossy black in 
breast, thighs, belly, and tail, with a steel-blue bar across the wing, the hackle, back, shoulders, saddle, and 
wing secondaries being a clear, spotless, silvery white. The ground colour of the hen's plumage is a beautiful 
French slaty grey, marked with minute pencillings of black on body and wings ; the tail dark, breast a light 
fawn colour, and hackle silvery white, striped with black ; legs and beaks in both sexes are white. No other 
strain of Game Fowls will breed so absolutely true to colour for generations as the Black- Breasted Silver- 
Duckwings. 
The Brown-Breasted Yellow-Birchen Cock has yellow eyes, beak, and Ugs. The hackle and saddle 
feathers are a pale straw colour, with a shade of birchen showing throughout ; the wings brown, including 
the secondaries, the wing-bars being of the same colour. This strain is recognised as being among the 
very best of the Pit birds. 
The Yellow or Golden-Duckwing is probably the most handsome of all the Game varieties. The cock 
should have clear straw-coloured hackles, the saddle hackle being one shade darker than the neck hackle ; 
back, wing-bow, and shoulder-coverts a deep golden colour, the wing-bars a bright steel-blue, the wing 
secondaries pure white, each feather at the end being tipped with a steel-blue spot ; the breast, thighs, belly, 
tail, and primaries black, the legs either yellow or willow. The hen to match is a shade darker than the 
Silver-Duckwing hen, both in body and breast. 
The Red-Pile Cock is the exact counterpart of the Black-Breasted Light- Red with yellow legs, siib- 
stitttiii'g ivhite where the former is black, and are called Smock-Breasted Bloodwing-Piles, the hen to match 
being golden-yellow in head and neck, striped with white ; the back, wings, and tail a clear creamy white ; 
the breast a salmon-red, shading off to a creamy white on belly and under-parts. 
The Streaky-Breasted Pile Cock in hackle, back, wing-bows, and shoulder-coverts should be a light 
ginger-red, the breasts being streaked with ginger markings, the Streaky-Breasted Custard-Pile being a shade 
lighter, the hens to match also being lighter than the hens belonging to the Smock-Breasted Bloodwing-Pile. 
The Marble-Breasted Spangle-Pile Cock should be spotted with red or black in breast, the hackle and 
saddle feathers red, white at the roots, shoulders red, tail white, more or less ticked with black, the whole bird 
having a piebald appearance. The hens to match are fawn and white intermixed, both sexes having white 
legs and beaks. 
The Ginger-Breasted Yellow-Pile Cock is tawny or ginger in breast, yellowish-red hackle, red shoulders, 
white secondaries and tail, with yellow eyes, beak, and legs. 
The Dun-Breasted Dun, both cock and hen, are one uniform colour, as described by the name, and 
have dark eyes, legs, and beaks. 
The Dun-Breasted Blue-Dun.— The cock's hackle, saddle, shoulders, and primaries should be a dark 
blue, the rest of the body and tail a dun colour ; the breast is sometimes laced with blue. The hen to 
match should be a dun colour throughout, the hackle being a shade darker than the body, the breast feathers 
being laced at times with blue as in the cock. 
The Streaky-Breasted Red-Dun. — Cock has beak and legs dark, eyes dark red, breast slate colour with 
a golden edge to each feather, or striped with gold ; hackles golden-red, shading to golden towards the 
bottom, and striped with slate stripes ; shoulders dark red, tail and secondary wing-feathers slate colour. 
The Dun-Breasted Yellow-Dun Cock is a dun fowl, with light yellow hackle and saddle, and reddish- 
yellow shoulders, the rest of the body-feathers dun. 
The Blacks are a perfect jet black, both cocks and hens ; gipsy faces, black eyes, beaks, and legs. 
