154 BOLTON GREY FOWLS. 



over by the Rotterdam steamers, they are denominated 'Butch Pen- 

 ciled Fowl,' or 'Dutch Every-day LayeiV They are an entirely dis- 

 tinct fowl, both in feathering, size, shape, and markings, and cannot 

 be confounded with any other. The nearest approach to them, is the 

 Silver Pheasant fowl ; their markings are, however, decidedly different. 

 They are more generally known and longer established in England 

 than the Pheasant Fowl, and have been called by various names, in 

 the different localities through which they are dispersed; they are a 

 neat, plump-bodied fowl, healthy and hardy, very nice on the table 

 as a substitute for young chickens ; their flesh, white and juicy ; their 

 bodies, plump and round. The cock weighs about four and three 

 quarters pounds, and stands seventeen inches high : the hen, four 

 pounds, and stands fifteen and a half inches high ; the plumage, des- 

 cribed above ; the comb, double rosed, with sharp top, free from top- 

 knot; ear lobes, white; wattles, large and round; hackles, pencil- 

 touched, or white ; tail, inclined to be dark ; legs, blue or white ; eggs, 

 most abundant, but small ; chickens, handsome, and easily reared. 

 They are beautiful ladies' pets ; require but little care ; are truly 

 ornamental on a lawn or grass plot ; and if the lady be a lover of a 

 fresh egg, she will not be disappointed by the ' Dutch Every-day 

 Layers.' " Nolan. 



" They are small in size, short in the leg, and plump in the make ; 

 the color of the genuine kind invariably pure white in the whole 

 lappel of the neck ; the body, white, thickly spotted with bright 

 black, sometimes running into grizzle, with one or more black bars at 

 the extremity of the tail. They are chiefly esteemed as very constant 

 layers, though their color would also mark them for good table fowls." 

 Mowbray. 



" They are white, with black spots all over, except the neck, which 

 is perfectly white. Their tails are more fan-like, or displayed, during 

 laying time, and their rumps present a fuller, or more elevated appear- 

 ance, than other fowls. The ends of the tail feathers are generally 

 blackish. They are capital layers, but poor sitters." 



