STANDARD VARIETIES OF CHICKENS. 
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Fig. 6.- — Rose Comt) White Leghorn, female. 
edging of brown. The secondaries are brown, with the outer webs 
finely stippled with lighter brown. The tail is black, with the two 
highest main tail feathers stippled with lighter brown. The breast 
should be rich clear salmon, free from either penciling, stippling, or 
shafting. The sides of the breast shade gradually to the color of the 
wings. The fluff and thighs are slate, tinged with brown. As in the 
male, the undercolor throughout is slate. 
The Brown Leghorn is one of the varieties in which double mat¬ 
ing is commonly practiced in order to produce birds of exhibition 
color in both sexes. By double mating is meant the use of two 
separate matings — one for the production of males of standard or 
exhibition color and the other for the production of females of 
standard or exhibition color. In mating for males of exhibition 
color a male is selected which approaches as closely as possible the 
standard description. With this male should be used females which 
have been bred from a line of exhibition males and which differ from 
the standard description for exhibition females. In general these 
females will be of a darker shade than the standard calls for. The 
11072° — 17—Bull, 898 -2. 
