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THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



marked with longitudinal stripes down the back, with black eyes, light lead, 

 colored legs, and a swelling of the down on the crown of the head, indicative 

 of the future top-knot, which is exactly the color of a powdered wig. At a 

 very early age, they acquire their peculiar distinctive features, and are then 

 the most elegant little miniature fowls it is possible to imagine. The distinc- 

 tion of sex is not very manifest till they are nearly full grown, the first ob- 

 servable indication being in the tail that of the pullet is carried upright, as 

 it should be, while the cockerel's remains depressed. 



OF \VHITE-CRE8TED BLACK! POLAND S. 



GOLDEN-SPANGLED POLAND. This variety varies in the color of its 

 plumage from a light to a dark golden yellow, laced and spangled with a 

 greenish luster black, and not unfrequently showing some part whitish feath- 

 ers in their wings, tail and crest. Legs and feet usually blueish, sometimes 

 verging on a greenish color ; ear-lobes blueish white. 



BLACK POLAND. The Black Polands are no strangers in this country, 

 they having been bred as long ago as we can remember. In plumage they 

 should be uniformly black (except crest,) although not unfrequently glossed 

 with metallic green, which, in contrast with the deep red wattles and hand- 

 some crest of white feathers, gives them a very unique appearance. Their legs 



