A NEW BREED

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3419, 25 February 1920, Page 2

A NEW BREED

..T\VO BODIES IN Ol\'l3 FR.=\l\lE. One of the most interesting exhibits brought to town. for Bush week (says the Sydney Sun) is I'egarded not :15 a freak but as a scientific wonder. This is an Orpington fowl having,‘ two bodies with the one frame. Thc fowl was born in West Australia, and is the property of Mrs Gunning Davis, of that State. It is now 011 view in the basement of the Town Hall. The left side of this remarkable creature is male and the right side female. It has four legs, two of them coming from. -the spine. It crows like a. rooster and cackles like a hen, and screains like an eagle. The most notable features 111' eits t’euthers. In the tail.‘ can be seen a. plnezisants f-.".!'l'.er beautit'ull_y lin,9;e<,l with gold, a small ostrich t'eather, and evn swan like down. The curiosity \\':.llks like an ost,i'ich, flies like :1 pheasant. makes its own nest, and is reputed to big the t'nthel' of three normal t'owl.<. it. 112.15 been broiiglit to Srlyney for It 11215 been brought to Sidney for exhibition at the R-byzil Show.