Head of a Maltese cock
- Godart, Thomas
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Watercolour drawing of a head of a Maltese cock, into the comb of which a spur had been transplanted from the foot, by the surgeon John Hunter, and had grown into the spiral horn six inches long, shown in the drawing. From a preparation which was once held in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.