24 SULTAN FOTfL. 



characteristics, in compactness of form and good laying qualities. 



In general habits they are brisk ^nd happy tempered. They 

 are very good- layers of large white eggs, but are non-sitters aiid 

 small eaters. 



As adults they are very hardy, with the exceiition of the ten- 

 dency to cold, to -which all crested birds are subject when ex- 

 posed; but the chickens, from their rapid arid early featherilig, 

 are difficult to rear, evidently suffering severely -from the extra 

 strain ba their young constitutions. 



DESCRIPTION. 



*^ In fSrm they are very plump, fuU cresfed, short-legged and 

 compact; thg>pMiaB^e pure and unsullied white throughout and 

 very abundant; their tails are ample, and carried erect; their 

 thi'ghs are short, and furnished with feathers which project 

 beyond the joiht; or vulture hocked. Their legs are short, wWte, 

 and profusely feathered to the feet, which are five toed. The 

 comb consists of two small spikes situated at the base of a full- 

 sized globular Polish'crest; the wattles are small and red, wrin- 

 kled, both sexes beii^ amply bearded. No fowls are more abun- 

 dantly decorated — full tail of sickle-feathers, abundant furnish- 

 ing, boots, vulture-hoeks, beards, whiskers, and full round Polish 

 crests, formed of closely-set, silky, arched feathers, not conced- 

 ing the eyes, but leaving ihem unobscured. 



The legs, as old age approaches, are apt to get red, swollen and 

 inflamed, perhaps from the spur growing in a curved form and 

 producing irritation. 



All the varieties of the Polish if kept in a damp situation are 

 liable to a cold, apt to degenerate into roup, and if they are too 

 closely bred, liable to tuberculous diseases and deformity of the 

 spine, causing humpback, ^ey are also very subject to vermin 



