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DOMESTIC FOWL 



GOLDEN SPA'NGLED PHEASANT COCK:. 



free from top-knot ; wattles large and rounded ; ear-lobes white ; 

 hackles on neck and saddle spangled ; tail finely plumed ; legs 

 blue ; skin white ; flesh delicate ; eggs very abundant ; no extra- 

 ordinary care necessary for the chickens. These are the fowl 

 that persons, without mind or understanding, will tell you are hah 

 Pheasant, or, perhaps, without caring, so as they effect a sale ; 

 but I can assure my readers, there is not a drop of Pheasant blood 

 in a hundred brace of them. They are true and unmixed domestic 

 poultry, an appellation which cannot be applied to the Pheasant, 

 as they never have been domesticated. For the satisfaction o*' 



