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FOWLS. 



Chap. VII. 



masculine characters, and crow at an early age. Of Mediterranean 

 origin. 



The Andalusians may be ranked as a sub-breed : they are of a 

 slaty-blue colour, and their chickens are well feathered. A smaller, 

 short-legged Dutch sub-breed has been described by some authors 

 as distinct. 



Fig. 30.— Spanish Fowl. 



6. Hamburgh Breed (fig. 31). — Size moderate ; comb flat, pro- 

 duced backwards, covered with numerous small points ; wattle of 

 moderate dimensions; ear lobe white; legs blueish, thin. Do not 

 incubate. Skull, with the tips of the ascending branches of the 

 premaxillary and with the nasal bones standing a little separate 

 from each other ; anterior margin of the frontal bones less depressed 

 than usual. 



