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Title: The American poulterer's companion: : a practical treatise on the breeding, rearing, fattening, and general management of the various species of domestic poultry, : with illustrations, and portraits of fowls taken from life.
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Bement, C. N. (Caleb N.), 1790-1868
Subjects: Poultry Poultry
Publisher: New York: : Harper & Brothers, Publishers 82 Cliff Street.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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was taken. • This breed is looked upon by some to be a nativeof Persia. Buffon thinks, on the contrary, that Vir-ginia is the place whence it sprang. He groundedhis opinion on the one hand on what is reported bythe Philosophical Transactions of 1693, that whenfowls are led to that country they seem to lose theirrumps; and on the other, on naturalists having onlybegun to mention fowls without tails after the dis-covery of America. I am not of that opinion, saysMain, which appears not admissible. In fact, mod-ern travellers have not confirmed the loss of the rumpwhich the English experience in Virginia, and it is po-sitively known, that in the other parts of America, in thehottest even, this privation does not take place.—Main, Aldrovand describes the cock as black, interspersedwith yellow streaks, and the chief wing featherswhite, the breast white, the feet ash grey. The henhas a smaller comb than the cock, and is of a rustycolor except three black feathers in each wing. Fig. 49. %
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m o < «—iDCo o DOMESTIC VARIETIES. 197 In the London Illustrated News, we find a de-scription of Queen Victorias poultry-houses, yards,and portraits of some of her rare fowls, amongwhich are some giant birds, termed Cochin-ChinaFowls, which we have transferred to our pages.From the portraits and description of them we arereminded of some of the same breed which we sawin the yard of Mr. Geo. Law, in Baltimore. Theywere noble looking birds, and as large as turkeys.The cocks were of a red color, and the hens of ayellowish brown. We saw nothing, however, torecommend them except their great size. Her majestys collection of fowls is very consider-able, occupying half-a-dozen very extensive yards,several small fields, and numerous feeding-houses,laying-sheds, hospitals, winter-courts, &c. It is, how-ever, in the new fowl-house that the more rare andcurious birds are kept, and to those—as the commonsorts are well known,—we shall confine our attention.The Cochin-China fowls claim

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