THE POULTRY-BOOK. 



2. The second variety of the Polish fowl is the well-known 

 Black fowl, with a white tuft on the crown. The portraits are 

 taken from fowls imported by J. Jacob Bower, Esq., of Balti- 

 more, direct from Hamburgh, and now owned by Joseph A. 

 Sampson, of Duxbury, and Rev. Dorus Clarke, of Boston. 

 Mowbray describes this fowl with accuracy, but errs in sup- 

 posing its original country to have been Holland ; these birds 

 having been brought from St. Jago by the Spaniards, to whom 

 they owe their first introduction into Europe. Their color is 

 a shining black, and both cock and hen hav*e the white top-knot. 

 The head is flat, surmounted by a fleshy protuberance, out of 

 which spring the crown-feathers constituting the tuft. These 

 are remarkably good layers, and will, if kept warm, lay nearly 

 throughout the year ; and it is this cause, probably, that has 

 induced Mowbray, and other writers, to confound them with the 



