44 1 The Illustrated Book of Poultry. 
SUC h as Spanish, Ilamburghs, or Dorkings, and the proportion here shown may perhaps be taken 
as a handsome medium. I he carriage is upright, sprightly, and graceful. 
Economically, the Java is very hardy, and a good layer, the eggs being coloured. The meat 
is \ei) white and juicy, exactly resembling that of the Langshan. There is, in fact, an obvious 
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similarity in many respects between the two breeds, and the extreme Langshan advocates have 
often averred that the Langshan was probably “ one of the ancestors ” of the Black Java. It is 
as certain as anything can be, that if they be connected (and the occasional occurrence of 
the peculiar eye in Langshans is very suggestive, as also the fine bone and white meat) the 
exact converse is the case. We have already seen that the one fowl tends towards all sorts of 
types, whilst the Java appears distinct and permanent in characters; and, moreover, all inves- 
tigations go to show with more or less probability, that the region of India and the Archipelago 
was the centre from which races of poultry diverged, and not that to which they came. It is 
