. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Photo by J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead. AN EGG WITHIN AN EGG. discovered by Master Percy Dickins, of. Photo by J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead. A PIGEON FEEDING ITS YOUNG. Guinscote, Northants. The outside egg was of ordinary size, and contained inside a complete but smaller egg properly covered with a shell. Mb. Finn writes: " The accompanying photo- graph illustrates one of the Fowls most remarkable variations to which the domestic fowl is subject — absence of the neck-feathering. This particular hen was reared by Mr. W. Ba
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Photo by J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead. AN EGG WITHIN AN EGG. discovered by Master Percy Dickins, of. Photo by J. T. Newman, Berkhampstead. A PIGEON FEEDING ITS YOUNG. Guinscote, Northants. The outside egg was of ordinary size, and contained inside a complete but smaller egg properly covered with a shell. Mb. Finn writes: " The accompanying photo- graph illustrates one of the Fowls most remarkable variations to which the domestic fowl is subject — absence of the neck-feathering. This particular hen was reared by Mr. W. Barrick, of Walthamstow (who sent the particulars and photograph to Mr. G. A. Doubleday), and was the only bird so characterised reared out of a sitting of eggs. When killed, it was six months old and weighed four pounds. At the last Crystal Palace Poultry Show two hens showing this curious variation were exhibited; they were very similar to the bird m the present illustration. There would seem to be a breed which truly transmits this somewhat unsightly peculiarity, for on the chronicling of the appearance of the present bird in the 'People' newspaper, Professor A. L. Lavault wrote from Nevers to say that at 'L'Allemande,' a large farm in the depart- ment of the Nievre, there was a truly- propagated race of bare-necked fowls. These came originally from England, and I have seen a statement in an English poultry-book that a bare-necked breed 355. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London
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