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denominated "Dutch Pencilled Fowl," or " Dutch Every-day 

 Layers." They are an entirely distinct fowl, "both in feathering, 

 size, shape, and markings, and cannot be confounded with any 

 other. The nearest approach to them, is the Silver Pheasant 

 fowl; their markings are, however, decidedly different. They are 

 more generally known, and longer established in England than the 

 Pheasant Fowl, and have been called by various names, in the diffe- 

 rent localities through which they are dispersed : they are a neat, 

 plump-bodied fowl, healthy and hardy, very nice on the table as a 

 substitute for young chickens ; their flesh white and juicy ; their 

 body plump and round. The cock weighs about 4f Ibs., and 

 stands 17 inches high ; the hen 4 Ibs., and stands 15 inches high ; 

 the plumage described above ; the comb double-rosed, with sharp 

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

 hackles pencil-touched or white ; tail inclined to be dark ; legs 

 blue or white ; eggs most abundant but small ; chickens handsome, 

 and easily reared. They are beautiful ladies' pets ; require but 

 little care ; are truly ornamental on a lawn or grass plot ; and if 

 the lady be a lover of a fresh egg, she will not be disappointed by 

 the " Dutch Every-day Layers." 



THE FRIZZLED FOWL, Corrupt FBIESLAND, 



So libelled, and misrepresented, by persons into whose possession 

 they never came, or, perhaps, who have never seen them, are pre- 

 cisely the opposite to what they are described. They are healthy, 

 hardy, and abundant layers, good sitters, and no better mothers, 

 and the chickens easily reared, and though, to appearance, they 

 are exposed to the inclemency of the weather, they are not so, 

 having an abundant downy covering under their feathers, and well 

 calculated for bringing up their own, or any other stock. I can 

 with confidence recommend them as mothers, for game fowl, (I 

 mean Pheasants, Capercalzie, Black-cock, Ptarmigan, Grouse, or 

 Partridge,) and are just as easily kept as the commonest cottage 

 breed ; they are of all colours ; of the ordinary size of our domestic 

 fowl ; are said to be of eastern origin. The cock weighs about 

 5 Ibs., and stands about 18 inches high; the hen about 4^ Ibs., 

 and stands about 16 inches high. The plumage has a truly 

 singular appearance, each feather being curled up, and projecting 

 from the bird ; the comb rather large, serrated and erect ; free 

 from top-knot ; ears and cheeks of ordinary appearance ; wattles 

 large and rounded ; hackles to correspond with their colour ; tail 

 plumed as in other fowl ; legs of the various colours of the bird ; 



