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Excerpt from Studies on Inheritance in Poultry, Vol. 1: The Constitution of the White Leghorn Breed The barred color-pattern is doubtless a very old and a by no means uncommon form of marking in the plumage of both wild and domestic birds. With some modification it is present in the feathering of many of our game birds, but it is in one or two varieties of domestic fowl that the character is to be seen in the purest and most extended form. At the present day the Barred Plymouth Rocks, an American breed, represent by far the most perfect development of the barred pattern to be found in any species or variety of bird. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.