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and beak are long, the latter being rather hooked. Comb low and flat, cov- 

 ered with small prominences like warts. Wattles and deaf-ears very small. 

 Eye usually yellow. The whole face and a great part of the throat are red 

 and naked, and the whole expression ' snaky ' and cruel. This is not belied 

 by the real character of the breed, which is most ferocious, even more so than 

 Game fowls, though inferior to the latter in real courage." 



THE FRIZZLED. 



We can find no difference between the " crisp-feathered " and French 

 frizzled fowl. LA YARD says these fowls were first found in Batavia, but TEM- 

 MINCK avers they are natives of Southern Asia, and are largely bred and 



TRIO OF FRIZZLED 



domesticated in Java, Sumatra, and on all the Philippine Islands. They are 

 known by BRISSON as Gallus crispus (frizzled fowl,) and as Gallus pennis 

 revolutis (fowl with rolled-back feathers) by LINNAEUS. The prevailing 

 color of these birds is white, but there are many specimens variously colored 

 with black and brown. We were highly impressed with their novel appear- 

 ance, and, as ALDROVANDUS says in his description of them, two peculiarities 

 of the cock attracted our particular attention and admiration. First, that 

 the feathers of the wings had a contrary situation to those of other birds ; 

 the side which in others is undermost or inmost, in this was turned outward, 



