Excerpt from The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise Upon the Mating, Rearing and Management; Different Varieties of Hamburgs
Mr. Wright, who has traced these fowls back still further, inclines to the belief that at some period where of we have no knowledge the Penciled varieties formed a part of the Hamburg family, although our earliest pos itive knowledge traces them to direct importations from Holland, where they were brought in great numbers, and were originally known under the names of Dutch Every day Layers or Dutch Everlasting Layers.
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