EUROPEAN LONGTAIL BREEDS, of Japanese Longtail
Fowl descent, page 3
In England the breeding of Longtails followed
fairly similar routes as in Europe, except that the birds were not typed
as strictly according to colour, comb type or lef colour as in Europe. These
two photographs below show an extremely fine Gamefowl-coloured Silver Duckwing
and a pea-combed bird with strong asiatic gamefowl influence (as in the
Red-Shouldered Yokohama). Historically speaking from a European perspective,
the British phenotype for the "Yokohama" is perhaps closer to
the original imports than the exclusively single-combed, white ear-lobed
Phoenix.
