fowls

With most of these birds head ornaments of all kinds are more fully developed in the male than in the female; but in Polish fowls the crest or top-knot, which in the male replaces the comb, is equally developed in both sexes.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

It is well known (Nathusius himself advancing many cases, s. 104) that there is a strong tendency in many domestic animals -- in bull - and pug-dogs, in the niata cattle, in sheep, in Polish fowls, short-faced tumbler pigeons, and in one variety of the carp -- for the bones of the face to become greatly shortened.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

We see this in the wonderful protuberance of the skull, which supports the crest of feathers in Polish fowls, and which by correlation has affected other parts of the skull.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

The animal life, in some insects and fowls, is so: the heat of the sun retrieves it.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

One of his fowls was a large capon pheasant, as fat as a pullet.

The Journal to Stella 2003

Will he not call the fowls of heaven to eat the flesh of kings, and captains, and great men of the earth?

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

'I thought you said the fowls were your own, to do what you liked with,' said Mabel.

Aunt Mary Mrs. Perring

She might speak to the dog, call the fowls to their meals, but she never otherwise spoke unless she was forced to.

Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917

But we, sailing along, found a fair and reasonable good bay, wherein were many and the same profitable islands; one whereof had so many seals as would at the least have laden all our ships, and the rest of the islands are, as it were, laden with fowls, which is wonderful to see, and they of divers sorts.

Sir Francis Drake’s Famous Voyage Round the World 1909

Though droughts should come, and though sheep should die, his fowls were his sole delight;

Rio Grande's Last Race & Other Verses 1902