Show fowl was a hybrid A fowl the offspring otte offe pring of a wild english pheasant cock and a guinea hec hen recently died lied on a farm near palatine N J A hybrid of 0 this kind while not unknown among men Is quite rare and very ery few persona persons have ever seen one the circumstances cum stances of its birth and life are mr william harris lirong near el imer bad a flock of guineas in the sprine spring of 1900 these guineas had bad the range of the farm on which was a fringe of timber mr harris and hie men noticed an english pheasant at agles in aa this strip of woods and on a few occasions when the guinea guineas ranged near the woods the pheasant mingled with them but ho he never came n near the house after this nok flork no flo rk k of guineas had bad laid a number of e eggs gs a neighbor jacob dubois bought of mr harris a setting of epis which were duly placed in a nest under a brooding hen now in all well regulated guinea families the tb period of incubation ie to four weeke weeks but to the astonishment of mr nir harris hais one of the edgr hatched in three weeke weeks the little chick ala presented to mrs ira lizzie uzzle smith it early exhibited its wild hd parentage and its instinct taught it self preservation when quite cling oung it showed surprising alert ness some of the family would try to catch it carefully placing the hand over it until its back was almost touched then q kiick tick as a flash bash it was a aay ay the owl fowl fed and ranged with the other farm fowls foals and arid when fully matured weighed seven pounds its appearance pe was not unlike tb that IV t 0 of f j 1 I cho chicken en except that mat tt its s legs legs lesem resembled lle those of a turkey it had remarkable strength and in a few minutes could scratch a hole deep enough to bury it self in it never met a snake without giving and winning battle |