STANDARD VARIETIES OF CHICKENS. 
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Fig. 4.—Single Comb White Leghorn, female. 
the neck or incline upward. In the female the front and the first 
point should stand erect, but the remainder of the comb droops to 
one side. The comb in both sexes should be free from wrinkles, 
thumb marks, or folds. In the rose-comb varieties the comb of the 
male should be of medium size and square in front, well filled and 
free from hollows, the spike well developed and extending straight 
back off the head, showing no tendency to follow the curve of the 
neck or to turn upward. The rose comb of the female is small and 
neat, and in shape is like that of the male. 
The standard weights are: Cock, 54 pounds; hen, 4 pounds; cock¬ 
erel, 44 pounds; pullet, 3^ pounds. 
The Single Comb Brown Leghorn (figs. 2 and 3) is one of the 
older varieties of this breed known in this country. In color the male 
has a dark-red head, a rich red hackle and saddle, the feathers of 
which are striped with a greenish-black stripe extending through the 
middle of each feather. The back is of the same shade of red as the 
hackle but is without the striping. The wing bows are a rich red, the 
fronts and coverts greenish black, which show as a distinct wing bar 
when the wing is folded. The primaries are black, with their lower 
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