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mottled white and black plumage. This fowl is undoubt- 

 edly of Italian origin, and outside of the distinguishing 

 feature of color it is pretty much a Leghorn in type and 

 characteristics. Compared with the Leghorn it is com- 

 paratively rare; in this country, and its egg-producing 

 qualities have not been so well demonstrated. 



The Hamburg. "The American Standard of Perfec- 

 tion" classes the Hamburg as a Dutch breed, while Edward 

 Brown classes it among the British races of fowls. There 

 are six varieties, namely, Golden and Silver Spangled, 

 Golden and Silver Pencilled, White and Black. The Ham- 

 burgs all have rose combs. They lay a rather small egg, 

 though the Blacks, owing probably to an infusion of 

 Spanish blood, lay a fair size egg. 



The Blue Andalusian. This is another of the Spanish 

 egg breeds. The fowls have a considerable popularity as 

 egg layers, and lay an egg of fair size. A peculiarity of 

 this breed is that though blue is the recognized color the 

 mating of two blues together produces offspring that are 

 either black or splashed white. In mating the blacks and 

 whites together usually blue offspring results. 



The Black Spanish. This was a very popular breed 

 thirty years ago. The fowls were splendid layers of a 

 large white egg, but are now very seldom found in any 

 section of the country. The breed has fallen the victim of 

 a too general tendency for fanciers to accentuate in their 

 breeding special points or peculiarities. In this case the 

 peculiarity was the long white face; breeders engaged in 

 a rivalry to increase its length. This was encouraged by 

 the " Standard " which says of the white face: "The 

 greater the extent of surface the better. " The Black 

 Spanish is of the same family as the Minorca. 



The Campine. This is the most popular egg breed in 

 Belgium. "We give a description of two Belgium breeds 



