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eggs, their easy fattening qualities, and their constitutional hardiness. 

 Their color should be jet black, though as age approaches an occasional 

 white feather may appear in the crest. They are short-legged, compact 

 fowls, with little offal, and of the non-sitting order — so much so that the 

 eggs should be placed under other hens, or those more apt to be reliable 

 as sitters and nurses. In England they are reputed somewhat tender, but 

 in the United States we have heard no complaints of this kind, after they 

 were once acclimated. The heads of the cocks are topped with handsome 

 crests, before which are seen large, toothed, two-horned combs. Their 

 wattles are handsome and pendent, and they have dense cravats of 

 feathers on the fore part of the neck. The illustration admirably shows 

 their chief characteristics. 



X. Breda or Gueldre Fowls, 



These fowls are called after the French province of the same name, 

 where the breed originated; but though they are classed as French fowls 

 they evidently show an infusion of Asiatic blood, while they are Polish 



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in shape and undoubtedly closely allied to that breed. There are sev- 

 eral such varieties distinguished by color — the cuckoo-marked being 

 called Gueldres, and the black, Bredas, though the latter term seems to 

 be applied to all that are not cuckoo or dominique marked. 



