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pendant •wattles, a moderately curved beak, neck hackles long and fine, 
reflecting violet and green-black colors, as do the breast, wings and upper 
tail feathers. The legs are long, slate-blue in young fowls, and a lead- 
gray when old. The hen is colored like the cock. Tho cocks arrive at their 
full growth at eighteen months old ; the hen at twelve. The flesh is considered 
the finest and the most valuable for table uses of any French breed. Thosa 
familiar with them are pleased with no other. 
Pair Black Langshans. 
XVII. The Creve Coeura. 
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This is tho most striking of the French breeds, their black crested 
/leads being curiously relieved with deep crimson, forked or antlered-like 
comb. Their aspect is bold and stately, the plumage black, shaded with 
green, thick and shining. The comb must be conspicuous and full, 
wattles loug and deep, breast large, full and deep, the hack straight not 
drooping. The legs should be strong, firm, leaden blue, in color, and 
short, with strong claw's. The hen should have a soft, thick, round 
crest, and very little comb and wattles. The color must be entirely black, 
no other color being admissible in pure bred fowls. Old birds, however, 
will sometimes show au occasional white feather in the crest; a sort of turning 
gray. 
