284 THE POLAND, OR POLISH FOWL. 



The small ones are of a purer black, with larger top-knots, and 

 I think I have heard they are truer everlasting layers than the 

 large variety. Some of the large ones have slight white tips 

 to a few of their feathers. I am altogether unable to point out 

 any difference between the Polanders ' that are everlasting 

 layers, and those that are not ; for I have seen several that 

 apparently were pure bred, that were as much inclined to sit 

 as any other Fowls." J. S. W. 



Both the Poland and the Lark-crested Fowls are, in Nor- 

 folk, trivially called " Copplecrowns."* 



Before taking leave of the full-sized Fowls, it may be ob- 

 served that the initiated can often distinguish the various 

 breeds unseen, by their crow. A friend remarks, " there is 

 an Italian proverb : e as the old Cock crows, so crows the young;' 

 and indeed the voice may be considered as a tolerably fair 

 guide for ascertaining whether the different breeds of Domestic 

 Fowl are genuine or not. Amongst individual Cocks of the 

 same variety, there will, indeed, be frequently slight variations 

 in the tone of crowing ; but yet, a person having any thing of 

 a correct ear, may easily trace the family crow throughout. 

 Thus, the Game breeds -that I have kept, have always rather a 

 a shrill, but not inharmonious crow, with a very peculiar, 



* In the "Tournament of Tottenham, or, the Wooing, Winning, 

 and Wedding of Tibbe, the Reeve's daughter there," an old bur- 

 lesque ballad, the Reeve says : 



"Whoso berys hym best in the turnament, 

 Hym schal be granted the gre be the comon assent, 

 For to -wynne my dozter wyth dughtynesse of dent, 

 And ' coppelV my brode-henne that was brozt out of Kent : 



And my dunnyd kowe 

 For no spens wyl I spare, 

 For no cattell wyl I care, 

 He schall have my gray mare, 

 And my spottyd sowe." 



