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The fowls are of medium size, greenish black in color, with rose or double 

 combs, and heavy beards, or mufis. They are round and compact in form, their 

 flesh of good quality, and they are reported to be extraordinary layers. 



GRAY LIVONIANS. 



Northern Europe, froip Denmark through Finland to Livonia, in northern 

 Russia, possesses a fowl which is almost the exact eonnterpart of the American 

 Dominique, but which has been originated in one of those countries. 



As this fowlia greatly esteemed in those high latitudes it would seem de- 

 s.raUlu io import it into the northern United States. 



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