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bow, red 5 coverts, black ; tail feathers, sickles, and tail coverts, lustrous 
black 5 thighs, black; shanks and feet, yellow. The hen is brown; head 
and hackles, light golden, the hackle feathers being striped with black 
down the center; the feathers of the body, penciled with black; tail, 
black or dark brown, the upper feathers being penciled with light brown. 
The head of the cock is long, and the neck slim and snaky; breast, 
broad; great breadth across the shoulders; back, straight and sloping 
to the tail; body, hard and compact; wings, short; tail, small and 
closely folded, with few sickles and fine narrow hangers; thigh, long 
and well developed; shank, long, stout, and smooth; toes, long and 
straight. The hen is about the 
same shape as the cock, and the 
carriage of both is bold and 
upright. The Black-breasted 
Red Game is an excellent table 
fowl, and a moderate layer of 
medium sized eggs of rich flavor. 
The chicks require much care, 
as their constitutions are 
weakened from too close breed¬ 
ing for ornamental purposes. 
BROWN RED GAMES. 
The Brown Red Game differs 
from the Black-breasted Red 
Game in the color of the head. 
The face is dark purple; beak, 
dark brown or black; wattles, 
comb, and ear lobes, black or 
dark purple; head of cock 
orange; hackle, lemon colored, 
with a black stripe down center 
of each feather; back, lemon; 
saddle, lemon colored, striped 
Fig. 34.—Silver Duckwing Game cockerel. 
like hackle; breast, black, laced 
with lemon; shoulders, black; shoulder coverts, lemon; wing bows, 
lemon, and the coverts glossy black; tail, lustrous black; shanks and 
feet, dark yellow, nearly black. 
GOLDEN AND SILVER DUCKWING GAMES. 
The Golden and Silver Duckwing Games are similar in markings, the 
only difference being that the Silver Duckwing Cock (fig. 34) is white 
where the Golden Duckwing is golden or straw color. In both varieties 
the face, comb, wattles, and ear lobes are red; the beak, horn; breast, 
tail, and thighs, black; shanks and feet, yellow. In the Golden the 
head of the cock is straw color; back, golden; wing bow, golden, the 
wing coverts forming a distinct black bar across the wing. These 
points are white in the Silver Duckwing. 
