[Illustration: Fig. 61. Black Cochin Bantam pullet[6]]
[Illustration: Fig. 62. Black Cochin Bantam cockerel[6]]
[6] Photograph from Dr. J. N. MacRae, Galt, Ontario.
[Illustration: Fig. 63. Rose-Comb Black Bantam cock]
[Illustration: Fig. 64. Rose-Comb Black Bantam hen[7]]
[7] Photograph from Grove Hill Poultry Yards, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Dwarf types of most of the popular breeds have been made here and exhibited, but the originators were given very little encouragement to perfect them.
[Illustration: Fig. 65. Silver Sebright Bantam cockerel]
[Illustration: Fig. 66. Silver Sebright Bantam pullet]
[Illustration: Fig. 67. Dark Brahma Bantam cockerel]
[Illustration: Fig. 68. Light Brahma Bantam hen with brood[8]]
[8] Photograph from Brook View Farm, Newbury, Massachusetts.
=Varieties of bantams.= The most popular bantams in this country to-day are the Cochin Bantams, formerly called Pekin Bantams because the first that were seen in Europe and America had come from Peking. Only the self-colored varieties--buff, black, and white--are natives of China. The Partridge variety was made in England, where there are several other color varieties not known in this country. The Common Game Bantam is a dwarf Pit Game fowl; the Exhibition Game Bantam is a dwarf type resembling the Exhibition Game, developed from the Common Game Bantam. Rose-Comb Black and Rose-Comb White Bantams are diminutive Hamburg fowls; Polish Bantams are diminutive Polish. The Sebright Bantams are of the same general type as the Rose-Combs, but in color they are laced like the large varieties of Polish, not spangled like the party-colored Hamburgs. They are further distinguished by being "hen-tailed," that is, the males having tails like hens. Sebright Bantams were made in England about a hundred years ago, by Sir John Sebright, for whom they were named. Although the large Brahmas and Cochins are originally of the same stock, no bantams of the colors of the Brahmas have come from China. The Light and Dark Brahma Bantams were made in England and America in very recent times. From Japan has come a peculiar type of bantam with very short legs, a large tail carried very high, and a large single comb. In their native country the Japanese Bantams are not separated into distinct color varieties. In England and America there are black, white, gray, black-tailed white, and buff varieties.