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AMERICAN POULTRY CULTURE 
about the same size as Leghorns and, like them, 
have no Standard weights. They are excellent 
layers, but only fairly popular. 
Black Spanish are prized mostly as novelties, 
and they are one of the most striking examples 
of the fancier’s skill of any breed in the Standard. 
They are pure black in color of plumage, while the 
wattles, ear-lobes and entire side of the face are 
ivory white. Aside from the peculiar abnormal 
development of the skin and face, they resemble 
the Black Minorcas very much. For practical 
purposes they are excelled by almost any of the 
breeds in the Mediterranean class, and this variety 
is rarely bred. 
Polish may well be regarded as a strictly orna- 
mental fowl. They are neither popular nor com- 
mon, and the only reason they find a place 
in this book is because people who want a 
more or less practical breed of chickens of an 
entirely ‘“‘ different’? character may have this 
desire gratified in the Bearded Polish. They are 
of about the same size as the Leghorns, or slightly 
smaller; rather delicate; fair layers of white eggs; 
non-sitters; have very large crests or beards; small 
V-shaped combs; ear-lobes white; legs slatish or 
willow-colored. The leading varieties are the 
White-crested Black, the Bearded Golden, and the 
Bearded Silver Polish. 
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