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the ground colour should show between each spangle, though this is very rarely seen. The colour of the 
spangles on the hen is of great importance ; these should be a very rich satiny green-black, having a raised 
or embossed appearance ; the ground colour a pure silvery-white ; the neck hackle well ticked from head to 
points ; back well a:nd evenly spangled ; wing- bars, wing-bows and shoulder coverts all boldly and evenly 
spangled ; the secondaries pure white, with a distinct spangle on the end of each feather; breast, thighs and 
under-parts well spangled ; tail pure white, with a clearly-defined spangle on the end of each feather. This 
description of hen, if mated to a cock as described, will produce ideal show pullets, if the same system is 
followed as that laid down for cockerel breeding. To produce cockerels and pullets from the same pen 
should, however, be the aim of all Fanciers, and this can be done by careful selection of the breeding stock, 
choosing a cock as described for cockerel-breeding, placing with him a couple of the hens used for cock 
breeding, and a couple of hens bred from the hen-feathered cock or pullet strain. By this means there are 
certain to be a fair proportion of both sexes fit for exhibition. 
Golden Spangles. 
" Unlike the Silver Spangles, I find that as good results as wished may be obtained in breeding both 
cockerels and pullets from the one pen, if the stock birds are properly mated. A Golden-Spangled cock of 
the following description should be procured to head the pen. The comb should be neat, close-fitting, full 
in front, tapering to the back, with plenty of work or points, and a good, well-carried spike or leader behind 
Fig 8i. — Feathers of Silver-Spangled Eamburg Hen. 
a perfectly red face ; white round ear-lobes, fairly thick and smooth, with wattles as free from wrinkles as 
possible ; the neck hackle, a rich golden bay, each feather striped down the centre with rich deep black ; the 
back, shoulder coverts, and wing-bow, a deeper colour, each feather being tipped at the end with a rich green 
black spot, these spots becoming longer in shape down the back ; the saddle feathers are marked with a 
black, elongated, diamond-shaped spangle on the tip, and extending up the feather about one inch ; the 
feathers on shoulder coverts and wing-bow, narrow and tapering, with dagger-shaped spots on each end ; the 
wing-bar5 well spangled, the whole of the ground colour of the breast, thighs, and under-parts being a bright 
golden bay, well covered with solid spangling, the ground colour showing between ; the wing secondaries 
should be a rich golden bay, with a black spangle on the tip of each feather ; the tail, full and flowing, and 
of the greenest-black colour possible. The hens to match a bird as described should be of one uniform 
rich golden bay ground colour throughout, with the exception of the tail, which is black, the neck hackles 
being striped evenly with glossy green-black. The breast, thighs, and under-parts should have each feather 
marked with a bold, solid spangle at the end ; the back, shoulder coverts, wing-bow, saddle and tail coverts 
being especially well spangled (though on the latter this is rarely seen, it having more of a laced appearance), 
the wing-bars being clearly defined by two striking and regular lines of spangling ; the wing secondaries, 
bright golden bay, with a green-black spangle at the end of each feather. Hens of this description, mated 
