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farmers' BULLETIN 898. 
and Hull are black. The undercolor is gray throughout. In the 
female the head is a silver gray. The neck is a silver gray, each 
feather showing a narrow black stripe. The wing bows and coverts 
are silver white, finely stippled with ashy gray, giving these sections 
a general gray cast. In the primary and secondary feathers the 
upper webs are gray and the lower webs a slaty gray. The front of 
the neck is a light salmon, and the breast is salmon, fading gradu¬ 
ally to the color of the wings at the sides. The back, body, and 
thighs are the same color as the wing bows and coverts. The tail 
is black except that the upper two feathers are light gray and the 
tail coverts are gray. The fluff is a light ashy gray. The undercolor 
is gray throughout. The legs and toes of both sexes are yellow. 
Fig. 11. Single Comb Black Minorca, male. 
