. The poultry book : a treatise on breeding and general management of domestic fowls : with numerous original descriptions, and portraits from life . d variety of the Polish fowl is the well-knownBlack fowl, with a white tuft on the crown. The portraits aretaken from fowls imported by J. Jacob Bower, Esq., of Balti-more, direct from Hamburgh, and now owned by Joseph , of Duxbury, and Rev. Dorus Clarke, of describes this fowl with accuracy, but errs in sup-posing its original country to have been Holland ; these birdshaving been brought from St. Jago by the Spaniards, to
. The poultry book : a treatise on breeding and general management of domestic fowls : with numerous original descriptions, and portraits from life . d variety of the Polish fowl is the well-knownBlack fowl, with a white tuft on the crown. The portraits aretaken from fowls imported by J. Jacob Bower, Esq., of Balti-more, direct from Hamburgh, and now owned by Joseph , of Duxbury, and Rev. Dorus Clarke, of describes this fowl with accuracy, but errs in sup-posing its original country to have been Holland ; these birdshaving been brought from St. Jago by the Spaniards, to whomthey owe their first introduction into Europe. Their color isa shining black, and both cock and hen have the white head is flat, surmounted by a fleshy protuberance, out ofwhich spring the crown-feathers constituting the irft. Theseare remarkably good layers, and will, if kept warm, lay nearlythroughout the year; and it is this cause, probably, that hasinduced Mowbray, and other writers, to confound them with the VARIETIES OF DOMESTIC FOWL. 93 Dutch breed, which, from a similar circumstance, have beenstyed ^Every-day layers.^. ^^^iilRLVAQEOB- 3. This variety of Polish fowl is the most pure and unmixedof the three; it is, indeed, the uncontaminated descendant ofthe great fowl of St. J ago. Its color is a brilliant white, witha jet-black top-knot. This variety was described by Aldrovand,and more recently by Dr. Bechstein. I have never myself seena specimen of the breed, and have every reason to suppose it tobe extinct, or very nearly so. Applications have been made toseveral persons in both Germany and Poland, connected withthe poultry fancy, for the purpose of procuring specimens ofthese birds at any cost, but the answers returned were, withoutone exception, that they were no longer to be had. Of this third variety there are some beautiful specimens inthis country. Their qualities are the same as the Black Polandfowl, but they are decidedly handsomer. M THE POU
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