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Or-ping-tons 
T HE uniform of these Orpingtons is 
buff in color. That is the same shade, 
you remember, as was a part of the 
uniform of General George Washington’s 
soldiers. The bodies of these fowl are all 
that color. Their comb, face, wattles, and 
ear-lobes are bright red, and shanks and toes 
are white, or pinkish white. Over all their 
feathers there is a rich? golden gloss. The 
lower part of the body in fowls is called the “fluff,” from the downy feathers 
which cover it. Even the fluff in these is buff. These fowl must look very 
pretty out in a green meadow. 
The Sus -sex 
T HIS English rooster and hen seem to 
be having a chat in their (own) 
barnyard. They came from Sus-sex 
County, in England, and are cousins to the 
Dorking fowls. The chief difference be¬ 
tween them is that the Sus-sex fowl have 
only four toes while the Dorkings have five. 
This couple are mottled, the colors being 
reddish brown and white, with some green 
tail feathers among the long white plumes of the rooster, and green stripes 
down the center of the feathers of his cape. The hen’s longest tail feathers 
are also green, while her cape has more of white in it and her wings less 
than those of the rooster. 
The Fav-er-olles 
Y OU are doubtless thinking, as you look at this picture, What is 
the matter with the heads of these fowl? If you should see the 
fowl themselves, you would know that nothing was the matter, but 
that Nature had given them a very nice 
necker-chief to wear under their chins. That 
is, both the rooster and the hen have the 
bunch of soft fluffy feathers, called the 
“beard,” under their beaks, and the same 
kind of feathers standing out on their cheeks, 
and called a “muff.” These are French 
fowl, named for the place where they were 
bred, Fav-er-olle, in the north of France. 
Buff 
