The fowls were kept in cages by a servant, styled pullarius.
Our moulting season, like that of the fowls, must be a crisis in our lives.
The pigs and fowls of the Bresse and the geese and turkeys of the Dombes are largely exported.
There is very little grey matter in the cortex of the hemispheres, the surface of which is devoid of convolutions, mostly quite smooth; in others, for instance pigeons, fowls and birds of prey, a very slight furrow might be compared with the Sylvian fissure.
The first disease investigated by Pasteur was that of chicken cholera, an epidemic which destroyed io% of the French fowls; after the application of the preventive method the death-rate was reduced to below i %.