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RED PYLE GAMES. 
The plumage of head and the hackle of the Red Pyle Game cock 
(fig. 35) varies from bright orange to chestnut; back, crimson; breast, 
white, laced with chestnut; body, white; wings, crimson, transversed 
with a white bar; tail and tail coverts, white; the head of hen is chest¬ 
nut; hackle, white, edged with yellow; back, white; breast, salmon; 
wings, white .or chestnut tinged; tail, white; shanks and feet of both 
cock and hen are yellow or willow. 
Red Pyles are similar in markings 
to the Black-breasted Reds, white 
being substituted for black (tig. 39). 
WHITE AND BLACK GAMES. 
These two varieties differ only 
in color from the others of their 
breed. The plumage of the White 
Game is a pure, spotless white; 
beak, shanks, and feet, yellow; 
comb, wattles, and ear lobes, red. 
The Black Game is a lustrous 
black in plumage; beak, shanks, 
and feet, black; comb, wattles, and 
ear lobes, deep red. 
BIRCHEN GAMES. 
Birchen Games are silvery white 
and black; head, hackle, back, and 
saddle of cock are silvery white, 
with a narrow black stripe in center 
of each hackle and saddle feather; breast black, each feather laced with 
silvery white; wing coverts, glossy black; tail and thighs, black; 
shanks and feet, dark willow or black; comb, wattles, and ear lobes, 
dark purple or black. The hen is black, except the hackle, which is 
silvery white, with a dark stripe down the center of each feather. 
CORNISH AND WHITE INDIAN GAMES. 
The Indian Game (figs. 3G and 37) has many fine qualities to recom¬ 
mend it to the breeder, and for many years past has been one of the 
most popular of fowls. In plumage the male is green-black without 
penciling; the wings, chestnut, with bay and metallic black wing bar; 
the feathers of the neck hackle are short and hard, green-black, with 
delicate crimson-brown shafts. The plumage of the hen is very difficult 
to obtain by breeding, and should be a combination of nut-brown and 
green-black throughout, green predominating. Along the breastbone 
of both male and female the feathers part and allow the skin to show 
