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masculine characters, and crow at an early age. Of Mediterranean 

 origin. 



The Andalusians may be ranked as a sub-breed : they are of a 

 slaty-blue colour, and their chickens are well feathered. A smaller, 

 short-legged Dutch sub-breed has been described by some authors 

 as distinct. 



Fig. 30.— Spanish Fowl. 



6, Hamburgh Breed (fig. 31).— Size moderate; comb flat, pro- 

 duced backwards, covered with numerous small points; wattle of 

 moderate dimensions; ear lobe white; legs blueisb, thin. Do not 

 incubate. Skull, with the tips of the ascending branches of the 

 premaxillary and with the nasal bines standing" a little separate 

 fi m i acb other : anterior margin of the frontal bones less depressed 

 than usual. 



