Silkie or Silky cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus, Lady Gwydyr’s pair, first prize in any variety class at Bristol 1871. Chromolithograph by Vincent Brooks Day & Son after an illustration by Ludlow from Lewis Wright’s The Illustrated Book of Poultry, Cassell, London, 1890.

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