The SILKY fowl is so called from its plumage, which is snowy white, being all discomposed and loose, and of a silky appearance, resembling spun glass. The comb and wattles are purple; the bones ...
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... Fluff._--The silky feathers growing on the thighs and hinder parts of Cochin-China fowls. Hackles._--The _neck hackles_ are feathers growing from the neck, and covering the shoulders and part of the back ...
... It however differs from the first two in being entirely destitute of the thick shaggy mane; and, instead of the long silky hair of the third, it is clothed with close, short hair, equal ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
... The udder is fine, and covered with a silky down to the inside of the thighs; and the dandruff is soft and oily to the touch. The shape is similar to the selvage somewhat ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
... The Tenth Class.—Horizontal. [Illustration] The first order have a dandruff of yellowish color; the hair is short, fine, and silky; the escutcheon is lower down from the vulva than the other classes, and ...
... The tail terminates in a large tuft of hair; and, in bulls of two or three years old, the under part of the neck is slightly furnished with long, black, silky hair. "The female ...
... She resembles him upon most points, but differs in some; her comb having many indentations; the fluff being softer, and of almost silky quality; the tail has upright instead of falling feathers, and comes ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
... Otherwise it is like the selvage escutcheon. [Illustration] The first order cows have a fine udder, soft, and covered with a silky down; and its skin is yellowish or nankeen. Cows of the first ...
... but sometimes inclining to yellow; skin thin and orange-yellow; hair of medium length, soft and silky, making the animals remarkable as handlers; muzzle of the nose white; eyes full and mild; ears yellowish ...
... The head and the body generally is covered with very long silky hairs of a dark colour; some of which are seventeen inches long; on the middle of the back (which is broad and ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
... The mesian or dart-like tuft, with soft silky ascending hair, is rarely seen, and only in those classes in which the escutcheon does not ascend to the vulva. It is like a V ...
... approximated at their bases; the _Bos grunniens_ by it's whole tail being covered with long silky hairs; the Bos bubalus_,(at least the Indian buffalo,) by having the whole length of its horns ...
... The tomato seed is short-oval and flattened in shape, covered thickly with short silky hairs. The embryo or baby plant is coiled in a spiral and imbedded in the endosperm (reserve food supply ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
... first order has the escutcheon of yellowish color, with flexible udder, covered with hair downy and silky. The shape is the same as the seventh and eighth class, except that the vertical escutcheon ends ...
THE DOMESTIC OXEN OF THE HOTTENTOTS, CALLED BACKELEYS, BACKELEYERS, OR · George Vasey · 1851
... His hair is short and silky, and the colour a cream or yellowish white, except two black tufts which appear on each foot. On the back of the neck there is a hump or ...
LECTURE UPON THE CHANNEL ISLANDS, THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE CATTLE. · Willis P. Hazard · 1880
... The hair of the escutcheon is finer, shorter, more furry, and more silky. Its appearance, at the first glance, makes one think this part of the animal has been shaved. Compared with the ordinary ...
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