From The WarminsterHerald, Saturday 2 May 1857:
Last week a hen belonging to Mr. Strong, marble mason, Portway, Warminster, brought out a brood of chicken, all of which, with one remarkable exception, were ordinary feathered bipeds, and that one had a third leg growing out of its back with perfectly well formed foot attached; the chick ran about and fed with the rest, but it was remarked that the leg on its back moved spasmodically every time the chick cried. It only lived a week. The Editor has in his possession a kitten with eight legs and two tails, which was born alive at Heytesbury a few months since, and stuffed by W. Whatley, of Boreham.