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The Australasian Book of Poultry. 
The Black- Breasted Brassy-Wings are perfectly black, with the exception of a patch of red colour on 
the wings. These birds have often red faces and eyes, and their legs and feet are of a bronzy colour. 
The Black-Breasted Furnace Cocks have dark eyes, beaks, and legs, with various shades of golden- 
coloured feathers across the back and shoulders ; sometimes the neck hackle and wings are tinged with red 
or golden, the hens often showing a little gold marking on the hackle, but jet black throughout the body. 
The Black-Breasted Polecat Cocks are black in body, but have a little more red on back and hackle 
than Furnaces. The hens are dark or black, with a little colour in hackle. 
The purest strains of Whites had white eyes, beaks, and legs ; but red eyes, yellow beaks and 
legs, are now allowed. The former were known as Smock-Breasted Smocks. 
The Cuckoo-Breasted Cuckoos are a slaty or bluish-grey ground colour, with distinct bands of a darker 
shade across the feathers, the cock and hen being alike in colour. There are many and various shades of 
this colour allowed, the Yellow-Cuckoo having a buff ground colour. 
The Spangle-Breasted Spangle-Red or Pheasant-Breasted Pheasant-Red Cocks are marked similarly to 
the Golden-Spangled Hamburg, and the origin of the " Golden Mooney " and " Pheasant-Malay " is generally 
considered to have rested with this variety. They were a trifle "soft " in the Pit, and were in consequence 
neglected. 
The Henny is oi various colours, such as Dark-Partridge, Red-Grouse, Wheatens, Greys, Blacks, Duns, 
Whites, Duckwings, and Spangles, and we have seen good ones of all those colours. They run heavier than 
the other varieties, but are slower in the Pit. The hens are about the best layers of the Game varieties, and 
as Table birds they excel, but as a Fancier's Fowl their more or less quiet plumage does not offer the 
same attraction to the Fancier as the other varieties. 
The Muffs are found in all colours, and we have seen good ones of nearly every variety excepting Piles, 
their characteristic feature being the presence of a growth of feathers on the throat, and extending up each 
side of the face to the ear. They are undeniably Game, and, as a rule, are large and sound-constitutioned 
birds. 
The Tassells are generally found in the darker colours, taking the name from the presence on the head 
of the cock of a few feathers growing backwards and upwards, the hens being more developed in this respect, 
often having a pronounced topknot. They are Game birds of the first water, being noted for their fighting 
capabilities. 
The Old English G.\me Fowl Club's Standard of Perfection. 
COCK. 
Head. — Narrow, of medium length ; beak, slightly curved, strong at the base ; eye, prominent and 
bright, with quick and confident expression, and alike in colour. 
Muff (if any). — To be short, and thickly feathered. 
Layback (if any). — To lie close to the head of cock, extending straight back ; in the hen, to be a more 
pronounced topknot. 
Neck. — Rather long, and very strong at junction with the body, the hackle composed of long feathers, 
covering the shoulders. 
Back. — Medium length, broad across the shoulders, tapering towards the tail, the saddle feathers long 
and flowing. 
Breast and Body. — Breast broad, full, and straight ; body, medium length, firm, and muscular, convex 
on the sides, broad at shoulders, and tapering towards the tail. 
Wings. — Long, strong, and inclining to meet under the tail. 
Tail. — Nearly upright, full, and expanded ; sickle feathers abundant, broad, and well curved ; main or 
true tail feathers abundant, broad, with hard and strong quills. 
Legs a?id Feet. — Thighs short and stout ; shanks rather long, of medium bone, round and clean ; scales, 
smooth and close ; toes, long and spreading, the back toe standing well backward, and flat on the ground. 
