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Poland. 



The Poland fowls, as they are gene- 

 rally called, where chiefiy imported from 

 Holland. Their colour shining black, with 

 white tops on tlie head of both cock and 

 hen. The head is Hat, surmounted hy a 

 fleshy protuberance, out of which spring 

 tile crown feathers or top, white or black, 

 with the fleshy King David's crown, consist- 

 ing of four or five spikes. They are not so 

 tiiickly covered with feathers as some other 

 breeds, and still less so with down. Their 

 form is plump and deQ]^, and the legs of 

 tlie best species not too long. Perhaps the 

 gjenuine sort has always five clavv^s, and 

 as the Poland cock will produce occasion- 

 ally white stock from white English hens, it 

 is not improbable, the similarity of forni 

 likewise considered, that our famous Bark- 

 ing breed may have been originally raised 

 from that cross: or supposing such specu- 

 lation groundless, the Darking differing as 

 it does from the coiamon, may have been an 

 imported breed. 



