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cacy of its flesh and its aptness for fattening, has no 

 crest and is long-legged, with black plumage of green 

 and purple luster. The legs are blue and the comb 

 rises in two little red horns. 



' ' Similar but better developed horns, accompanied 

 by a thick headdress of feathers, adorn the Creve- 

 coeur species. The hen is a beautiful black ; the cock 

 wears, against body plumage of the same dark color, 

 a rich gold or silver tippet. 



" Finally, to the large species belongs the Cochin- 

 China, an ungraceful bird, with very strong body and 

 shapeless and disordered plumage, generally reddish 

 white. Its eggs are brownish in color. ' ' 



