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Mr. W. B. Tcgetmeier on Modem 



this country from the United States, where the breed was 

 first carefully bred, they have been crossed with ordinary 

 Game, and brown, as distinguished from white, Leghorns 

 are an established breed. 



Under the name of Hamburgs, a misnomer which was 

 first employed at one of the early Birmingham shows, several 



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Pencilled Hamburg. 



distinct breeds of fowls are confounded together. The so- 

 called Spangled Hamburgs (fig. 9, p. 315) originated appa- 

 rently in England ; small competitive shows, which were con- 

 fined to the hens, having existed in the north for a long period. 

 In this breed, of which there are two sub-varieties, named, 

 according to the ground-colours, Gold- or Silver-spangled, the 



