. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Oold-Spangled Hambiureh Fowl. The Spangled Poland, like the Hamburgh, is classed as the Sil-ver-Spangled and the Gold-Span-gled. The plumage
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. Oold-Spangled Hambiureh Fowl. The Spangled Poland, like the Hamburgh, is classed as the Sil-ver-Spangled and the Gold-Span-gled. The plumage of the formerhas a ground-color of silver-white,with well-defined, moon-sh;iprd,black spangles. In the cock thefeathers are white, edged and tip-ped with black; in the hen eachhackle-feather has a spangle at theend. The tail-feathers are clearwhite, with a large spangle on theend of each, and the wings of bothcock and ben are double-barredwith spangles. The breast-colorof the cock should be free from anyblack shade and finely Gold-Spangled fowl is verysimilar to the Silver-Spangled, sub-stituting only a rich golden ground-color for the silver-white. The tail of the cock, however, is dark bay, the sickle-feathers beingtipped with black, and the side-feathers edged evenly with the sametint. Frequently both of these varieties of Spangled Polands aremarked with Spangled Poland Fowl. The Red Pile Game receives its name from the arrangement of colors in its plumage, which, in thecock, iscomposedof a white ground,piled with a bright red; the breastis mostly white, frequently touchedor marked with red; the backis chiefly red, and the tail clearwhite, or mixed with red. The truespecies show briglit red eyes, thehackle red and white striped, andthe legs white. The hens have awhite body, veined or streaked withred, a more rubicund breast thanthe cock, and a white tail, some-times slightly sprinkled with birds in which the red colormost predominates are con
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