306 THE FRIZZLE D, OR PRIESLAND FOWL. 



figure of the Frizzled Cock, and gives the following account 

 of it : 



"Pompilius Tagliaferrus, of Parma, not the lowest among 

 distinguished physicians, wrote to me respecting this Cock, in 

 these words: 'I send thee the effigy of a monstrous Cock, 

 although the painter has not satisfied me in its delineation. 

 But I wish you to know that two things particularly worthy 

 of admiration are to be found in this Cock, which are scarcely 

 ever seen in our own Cocks and Hens. The first and principal 

 is, that the feathers of the wings are situated in a contrary 

 manner to what they are in others, for the flat part of them, 

 which, by the prescript of nature, in others bends inwards, in 

 this is seen outwards, so that the whole wing appears entirely 

 reversed. I think another thing worthy of notice, namely, 

 that the small feathers of the neck are erected towards the 

 head, like curls, whither also the whole tail appears to be 

 bent.' So far he. But what he records of this Cock, neither 

 its portrait sent to me nor our figure sufficiently express; 

 which his words show to have happened through the unskil- 

 fulness of the painter." Aldrovandi seems to doubt the fact. 

 His bird is drawn with a large, deep-cleft comb. 



Temminck makes a species of this bird. He says, it is a 

 native of Asia, and is found in a domestic state throughout 

 Java, Sumatra, and all the Philippine Islands, where it 

 succeeds well; but he is uncertain in what country it is still 

 found wild. 



It is curious that there should be a Frizzled Pigeon, called 

 by Fanciers the Frill-back. 



