. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. .. . edto the white Dorking. They are larger, hardier, and fat-ten more readily ; and although it may appear anomalous,it is not less true, that white-feathered poultry has a ten-dency to yellowness in the flesh and fat. THE SPANISH FOWL. It is easy to describe this beautiful and noble race offowl, as no variety of color is admissible. These birdsmu
. Domestic poultry: being a practical treatise on the preferable breeds of farm-yard poultry, their history and leading characteristics with complete instructions for breeding and fattening, and preparing for exhibition at poultry shows, etc., etc. .. . edto the white Dorking. They are larger, hardier, and fat-ten more readily ; and although it may appear anomalous,it is not less true, that white-feathered poultry has a ten-dency to yellowness in the flesh and fat. THE SPANISH FOWL. It is easy to describe this beautiful and noble race offowl, as no variety of color is admissible. These birdsmust be black throughout, richly shaded with a metallicgreen lustre. A purely white face is imperatively neces-sary to costitute a perfect specimen. Care must be takennot to mistake the ear-lobe for the face, as in the veryworst samples of the bird the former will be found quitewhite. In a first-class bird this color must be unmixedwith red spots, and extend from the insertion of the comb SPANISH FOWLS. 49 to the gill, and from the ear-lobe to the beak. The ear-lobe must be large, pendant, thick, and quite free fromany other color. This part of the face is more developed in the cock tha«the hen; in fact, he has it much larger than any other BLACK SPANISH COCK. It is composed of a double skin forming a sort of cock should have a large upright comb reaching thenostril. His wattle should be very large and long, hisbreast round and protuberant, his tail ample, his carriagenoble and very upright. The combs of the hens shouldfall over, and, when in good condition, be large enough to3 50 DO:^IESTIC POULTRY. bide one side of the face. Their breasts are prominent,but not so much as in the cocks; their faces very long, thin,and skinny. The points both sexes have in common aretaper blue legs, and deviating from the required line ofperfection in other fowls; they should be long. Inshape, the body should slant downwards from the neck tothe tail, and narrow from the shoul
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