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English: Houdans are large fowls with deep compact bodies and short legs. Usually white plumage with black spangles. From "Brett's Colonists' Guide," p420, a handbook of useful knowledge for European settlers in New Zealand, who were not used to southern hemisphere seasons and needed to learn a wide range of new farming skills.
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Source Leys, Thomson W. (1883). Brett's Colonists' Guide and Cyclopædia of Useful Knowledge. Auckland: H. Brett. Evening Star office, Wyndham Street.
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