White leghorns or Livorno cock and hen, Gallus gallus domesticus. From birds sent over specially for portraiture by Mr. Simpson, Treasurer of the New York State Poultry Society. 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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