. Our domestic birds; . n out-side of Spain are the White-faced Black Spanish, the BlackMinorca, and the Blue Andalusian. The fowls of Spain atthe present time aremostly of the Italiantype, with black (orin some districtsblue) the predom-inant color. TheBlack Spanish seemsto have been knownin Holland and Eng-land for two hun-dred years or Spain the whiteface is but mod-erately monstrous ex-aggeration of thischaracter began inHolland and wascarried to the extreme by British fanciers who admired it. The Black Minorca is supposed to have been brought to Eng-land direct from
. Our domestic birds; . n out-side of Spain are the White-faced Black Spanish, the BlackMinorca, and the Blue Andalusian. The fowls of Spain atthe present time aremostly of the Italiantype, with black (orin some districtsblue) the predom-inant color. TheBlack Spanish seemsto have been knownin Holland and Eng-land for two hun-dred years or Spain the whiteface is but mod-erately monstrous ex-aggeration of thischaracter began inHolland and wascarried to the extreme by British fanciers who admired it. The Black Minorca is supposed to have been brought to Eng-land direct from Spain about a century ago. There it was bred tomuch greater size, with the comb often so large that it was a bur-den to the fowl. Blue Andalusians, at first called Blue Spanishand Blue Minorcas, were first known in England about 1850. Asiatic races of fowls. The evolution of races of fowls in theOrient gave some general results strikingly different from thosein Europe. As far as is known, after the introduction of fowls. Fig. 37. Black Minorca cock. (Photograph fromArthur Trethaway, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) 50 OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS
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