. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". nly one or two seasons. We give portraits of theBlack birds here; and it will be seen that, excepting the change of color,again, they represent the same formed fowl, from beak to toes, — the trueShanghae, though ebony-hued. For several years, through the adoption of this title in England by thepoultry societies and clubs, all these different colored Shanghaes have cometo be called Cochins; and under this name only are they now recognizedin the Standards on both sides of the water. This is quite as well; though,as Mr. Eobert Fortune insists, u
. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". nly one or two seasons. We give portraits of theBlack birds here; and it will be seen that, excepting the change of color,again, they represent the same formed fowl, from beak to toes, — the trueShanghae, though ebony-hued. For several years, through the adoption of this title in England by thepoultry societies and clubs, all these different colored Shanghaes have cometo be called Cochins; and under this name only are they now recognizedin the Standards on both sides of the water. This is quite as well; though,as Mr. Eobert Fortune insists, u this stock never saw Cochin China, andwhat we all now call Cochins/ in England and America, are in realitybut the true northern Shanghae race. 40 THE CHINA FOWL. But a correspondent in a late American poultry journal puts this pointsensibly. He says, For my part, I prefer to see men up with the times,who have an i axe to grind9 in coming to the front as breeders of to-day, offowls as they are noiv, not the antiquated breeds of thirty years BLACK SHANGHAE (OR M COCHIN) COCK AND HEN. Correct! This is good doctrine; and to this, even we old ?uns will allrespond Amen;99 while, at the same time, the few varieties99 of Chinesefowls (alluded to by this writer), known in the antiquated time of 1847 to1852, have not been increased, I notice, by the receipt of any one additionalor new variety from that heathen land. We still have the White, the Buff,the Drab, the Silver Cinnamon, the Gray, the Yellow, the Partridge, the SHANGHAE, COCHIN, BRAHMA. 41 Grouse, and the Black; and all these gentlemen who, are so commendablyup with the times, are now breeding from the very identical stock in theirmodern experience that we ancient fogies imported and exported andwrote books about/ in the antiquated days of twenty or thirty years early stock has been improved somewhat in the later time ; and no-body need now object to the change in its name to suit the modern fancy,since the Sha
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