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^eUIKBA FOWL. 



THE GUINEA FOWL. 



THE GUIKEA FQ-WIi. 



Of all kno-wn birds, this, perhaps is the most prolific of eggSr 

 VVeek after week and month after month see little or no inter- 

 mission of the daily deposit. Even the process of moulting is 

 sometimes insufficient to draw off the nutriment the creature 

 takes to make feathers instead of eggs. From their great apti- 

 tude for laying, and also from the very little disposition they show 

 to sit, it is believed, that these birds in their native countryj 

 (Africa) do not sit at all on their eggs, but leave them to- be 

 hatched by the sun. 



It is not every one who knows a cock from a hen of this 

 species. An unerring rule is, that the hen alone uses the call 

 note "come back," "come back," accenting the second syllable 



