Long before what we now call "fancy fowls" were known or recognized (in fact long before the memory of any person now living) Hamburgs were kept and bred to feather among the peas-ants of Yorkshire and Lancashire in England and by them exhibit-ed at the small town and county fairs in their neighborhood. Of course they were then known under different names the Blacks being called "Black Pheasant Fowls" and the Spangled varieties "Lancashire Mooneys" and "Yorkshire Pheasants"; while such a variety as the Penciled Hamburgs were either wholly unknown or else were so little thought of that they have left no record of their origin if indeed they are natives of England at all.