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A RUMOUR gained currency last year that the old white-faced Spanish fowl, made classical by Darwin's experiments, was extinct. This is not so—a cock won the first prize in the “any other variety” class at the last Crystal Palace Poultry Show—but it is now very rare. Thus it seems to me worth mentioning that its characteristic points have undergone a great additional development since Darwin's time. The ear-lobes were then already large, fully continuous with the similar white skin of the face, and confluent with the throat-skin behind the wattles, but they did not hang down so far as those. By the seventies they did so, in some specimens at any rate, but still retained their character as ear-lobes. This has now been entirely lost; they form but the lateral portions of a great white bib or horizontal dewlap, which extends an inch or two below the wattles, the throat-skin having been much developed in the downward direction also.
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FINN, F. Altered Character in the White-faced Spanish Fowl. Nature 121, 246 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121246b0
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