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Here's the best description I've seen of the two structures:
"Araucanas are often confused with two other types of colored-egg-laying chickens: Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers.
The Ameraucana should also lay blue eggs, but unlike the Araucana it has a tail and possesses muffs and a...
Araucanas, in the US and Canada, do NOT have muffs. They have ear TUFTS. The two things sound similar, but anatomically they are very different.
There is a huge, ongoing thread about the differences between araucanas and Ameraucanas, right here in this forum. Check it out...