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differs from the Silver Penciled chiefly in the ground color of 
its plumage, which is a yellowish buff or yellowish bay, and in 
being rather larger. The legs of both these varieties should be 
blue. The Silver Spangled and Golden Spangled differ from 
the Penciled sorts, in having black, circular, oval, or crescent- 
shaped spangles- on the tail and wing, instead of bars. They 
_ are somewhat larger than the Penciled birds and have darker 
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legs. The Black Hamburg has a plumage of a uniformly rich, 
glossy-green black. 
All the Hamburgs are beautiful fowls, rich in plumage and 
fine in form; great layers (the eggs, however, are small); sel- 
dom desire to sit; and are good for the table, falling but little 
below the best varieties in this respect, although not so large 
as some others, 
They are impatient of confinement, and to do well must have 
