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30 THE BOOK OF THE GAMES.

other varieties, but are clad in solid glossy black in the

one case and in pure immaculate white in the other. In
solid colored birds there is no difficulty in mating for

breeding, care needing to be exercised only in selecting

standard specimens with rich plumage free from any ad-

mixture of other colors.

IN PIT GAMES
there are not less than sixty or seventy varieties men-
tioned, with the number ever on the increase. Some of

the most famous of these are Tartars, Claibornes, Earl

Derbys, Red Strychnines, Clippers, Rattlers, The Thompson
Whites, Pittsburg Dominic, White Hackles, Bob Mace
Shufflers, Belfast Reds, and others. For one who is spe-

cially interested in the study of Pit Games we can rec-

ommend- to him the complete work of Doctor J. W.

Cooper, "Game Fowls, Their Origin and History," in

which the various strains and their value for pit purposes

is quite fully and exhaustively set forth. It would tran-

scend the limits of this work to go into these details.

It may suffice us to say that Pit Games are largely of

the color of the varieties already described, although there

are grays, blues and dominiques, these colors also being

combined with reds and browns. There are also Henny
Games, so called from having a tail like a hen, without
sickle feathers, of various colors, the Whites perhaps being

the best known.

DUBBED OR UNDUBBED GAMES.

Game cocks are :- seldom shown in their natural condi-
tion, the comb, wattles and ear-lobes being usually cut