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intelligent, and its habits active and lively ; at the same time 

 it appeal's very subject to roup in our climate. The hen is an 

 excellent layer of very large white eggs, and does not sit. The 

 flesh is excellent, and the fine white transparent skin makes a 

 very favourable appearance on the table, which is only marred 



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by the dark legs. The breed does not lay well in the winter, 

 except in favourable circumstances. Altogether, it is decidedly 

 less suitable than the preceding for domestic purposes, but still 

 most valuable as a table-fowl As an egg producer, it is as 

 nearly as possible similar to the Spanish, not only in the size 

 and number of the eggs, but the seasons and circumstances 

 in which they may be expected. In juiciness and flavour the 



