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Show are attached to a turkey foot, left; and a peacock's foot, right. The J other two legs are those of an eagle j and a pheasant. The rear part of I the comb is a male leghorn, and the j forepart like that of a Dawkin hen. j The starboard side of the bird is hen, and the port side is male.. They call the eggs "Ova." Among the many thousands of curious cur-ious and puzzled persons who have seen "it" is the Prince of Wales. When he saw the bird during his tour of Australia he asked: "What next will they show me the colonies can rear?" It has no name. Since its discovery it has traveled over twenty thousand miles. It may come to Canada Can-ada on exhibition. The Farm Ranch. A POULTRY FREAK The greatest freak in the poultry world recently arrived in California from Australia. Three years ago, the banks of the Harris river, aus-tralia, aus-tralia, this hybrid of the fowl kingdom king-dom was found. It was then about one week old. It had a direct descendant des-cendant with it when it reached California. Cal-ifornia. The parent fowl is a consolidated consoli-dated twin, having both sexes, and four legs, all different; a double comb; two tails; an eye like a bald-headed bald-headed eagle; a crow like a rooster;! a cackle like a hen; the ability to lay; eggs, although its eggs have no shell j and resemble a capsule; 37 different! kinds of feathers, among others those j of the pheasant and ostrich; a spine j elongated nine inches from which I grows the extra pair of legs: a double! vent; port and starboard and a value of close upon $10,000. 1 A learned biologist, R. A. Butler, declares it to be a throwback of ! something like 25,000 years. In the cage with it is a hen of normal appearance, ap-pearance, of which it is the father. The male part of the hybrid is ninety per cent. The misshapen backbone interferes when the female proportion to such an extent that a perfect egg has never yet been laid by the bird. By descent it is a white Orpington, but no classification adequately cov- j evs it. The legs on which it walks j |