BREEDING AND MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY. 



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covered with feathers. 6 — The nostrils which are at the beginning of the 

 beak.. 7 The beak, of which the two parts, the upper and lower man- 

 dible, are horny. 



The head of the cock, as of the hen, is composed of two principal parts ; 

 1st, the skull is a firm union of bones, which include the upper part, or 

 mandible, of the beak ; 2nd, the lower part or mandible of the bep,k, be- 

 ino- the lower jaw-bone, formed by a single piece. In the skull are the 

 sockets or cavities which contain the eye ; the nostrils are in front of the 

 eye ; the auditory organ, or ear, is behind the eye. The head, excepting 

 the beak, is entirely covered by a fleshy covering, round which may be 

 seen several appendages or caruncles, which are the crest, the two ear- 



OUTER AND INNER WING PLUMAGE. (See Article IV 



lobes, and the two ear-wattles. This covering forms the checks The 

 color, the size, the form of each of these parts is v.ncd according to 

 the variety, and often serves to characterize each. A tuft of short feath- 

 ers called "the tuft" covers the ear. 



The comb is straight or drooping ; it is single when it is composed of 

 only one piece, double when there are two alike united or near together, 

 it is triple when it is formed of two alike and one in the middle ; it is 

 frizzled when full of granulations more or less deep, and erect excres^ 

 cences • it is a crown when it is circular, hollow, and indented ; it is goblet 

 shaped'when hollow, vascular, and not indented. There are other forms 

 hvi they are composed of parts or unions of those particularized. 



