POULTRY, DIFFERENT VARIETIES. 40 ? 
bow a clear, pure, silvery white, and across the wings a well defined black 
bar, in striking contrast with the white outside web of the quill feathers 
and the white hackle of the neck and saddle. The neck of the hen is 
1 bathers of Barbed Plymouth Rocks. 
silvery white, the breast salmon-red, changing to gray near the thighs j 
the wings silvery or slate gray, and without any tinge of red whatever. 
Ihe tail should be dark gray, the inside nearly black. 
111. Black Dorkings. 
This sub-family are jet black in color, the neck feathers of some of 
the cocks tinged with gold, and of the hens tinged silvery. The comb 
may be either rose or single but usually double, short and sometimes 
cupped ; wattles quite small and very red near the head. The tail 
feathers shorter and broader than those of the white variety ; the legs 
black, short, and with the two under toes quite distinct and separate, 
sometimes showing a rudimentary toe. They are hardy, the hens are 
good layers, good setters and careful nurses, and the eggs are of a 
large size, 
IV. Pawn-colored Dorkings. 
These are handsome birds of high carriage, said to have been produced 
*>7 a cross between the White Dorking and fawn-colored Turkish fowl. 
