Game, Malay, and Indian Game Bantams. 
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The Standard-coloured Black-Breasted- Red hen must match the cock in colour of eyes, beak, legs, and 
feet, and have red comb, face, ear-lobes, and wattles; the head and hackle feathers golden, with narrow, but 
clearly defined stripes of black on each side of the shaft of the feather, the golden forming an edging all round; 
the back, wings, and outer feathers of the tail, one uniform shade of colour, a light brownish drab, each 
feather pencilled all over minutely with black, giving a plain brown apptarance when viewed from a short 
distance. The pencilling must be very fine, and irregular, coarse pencilling being highly objectionable, and 
rusty markings on the feathers equally objectionable for a Show hen. The tail of the hen, with the 
exception of the outer feathers, should be black. The throat should be light salmon ; the breast, a rich 
salmon-red colour, the shaft of the feather running a shade paler, the thighs and undcr-parts shading off to an 
ashy-grey colour. Hens of this colour, if mated with cocks sound in colour, will throw a fair pr<)i)ortion of 
good-coloured cockerels, though for producing the latter in more uniformity, hens that are pule in breast, 
lightly streaked in hackle, and rusty on wings, can be depended upon, as they are, as a rule, harder 
feathered, and more stylish than the Standard-coloured hens. 
LACEU-BREASTED BROWN-RED GAME BANTAMS. 
The Brown-Red cock should have a dark gipsy face ; eyes black, or as dark as possible, and if 
undubbed, the comb should also be dark purple ; wattles and ear-lobes, dark red ; beak, the darkest horn 
colour ; legs, feet, and toe-nails, the darkest bronze, the more nearly black the better ; head and neck 
feathers, lemon or golden, striped with black, each feather having a shaft and margin all round the edge of 
lemon or golden, the sides of the shaft being lustrous black ; back, wing-bows, shoulder-covert?, and saddle 
hackle, lemon or golden, accurately marked with lustrous black in the ■ centre of each feather ; breast, rich 
black, each feather showing pale lemon or straw-coloured shaft and margin all round, giving a beautiful laced 
appearance; the rest of the body feathers should be black, and as lustrous as possible. This has been the 
fashionable colour for some years, but owing to the softness of feather which generally accompanies the paler 
shades, there are many high-class Judges and Breeders who prefer the Golden to the Lemon, and even go so 
far as to advocate bright orange. Any of these three shades of colour are permissible, as the Black-Reds 
are of various shades, the Piles and Duckwings ditto ; but whichever shade the bird is, the laced breast and 
striped hackles must be clear and distinct. 
The Brown-Red hen must have a gipsy face and comb, which, as a rule, are found much darker (often 
black) than the cock's ; eyes, beak, feet, and legs, to match the cock ; the head and neck hackle, straw 
colour, or pale gold, or even brassy, if clear and bright, each feather having a narrow stripe of lustrous black 
down each side of the shaft ; the breast must also be laced similarly to the cock's, but not so heavy ; the 
whole of the rest of the plumage being one beautiful lustrous green-black. The straw, pale gold, or bright 
brassy colour should run right up both sides of the comb, hens having brown or black colour on their heads 
being objectionable. 
We have bred Brown-Red cockerels in three ways : First, by using a high-coloured cock, with not too 
much breast lacing, and mating him with small-framed hens, clear in body colour, fairly well laced on the 
breast, and with their hackles lightly streaked with gold colour ; the paler the hackle colour is, the brighter 
you will get the cockerels. Secondly, by using a darker-coloured cock with Birchen hens. Thirdly by using 
a Birchen cock with Brown-Red hens; but the first plan— of mating the pair of pure Brown-Reds— if properly 
selected, will produce the best cockerels. In any case, a Brown-Red hen, at all shafty in wings, or laced on 
back, is almost worthless for breeding, and no use at all for showing, as, if bred from, the cockerels will 
come ticked in under-parts, and heavily laced on wing-butts — two faults that must not be tolerated in 
Brown-Reds. 
In breeding the Brown-Red pullets, a cock should be chosen before a cockerel, as often the latter, 
though perfecdy sound in the black of the wing-butts as a cockerel, will moult out ticked or laced in these 
parts after the first year, and if bred from, will throw pullets laced on back and wing-bows, and useless for 
Show purposes. The cock may be a couple of shades darker than the Exhibition Standard colour. If he 
