. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". eteran breeders of the Cochin and Brahma varieties held that it is quitetime that a correct standard in shape, and appropriate characteristics of theChina varieties should be fixedly determined on in this country, in order thatfanciers may know and realize what/or??i and points it is advisable and enregie to aim to breed to, nowadays. If the best type of the true originalShanghae fowl, imported from that city five and twenty years ago, were strictlyadhered to, admirable portraitures of which bird, in its genuine truthfulnessof delineation, is
. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". eteran breeders of the Cochin and Brahma varieties held that it is quitetime that a correct standard in shape, and appropriate characteristics of theChina varieties should be fixedly determined on in this country, in order thatfanciers may know and realize what/or??i and points it is advisable and enregie to aim to breed to, nowadays. If the best type of the true originalShanghae fowl, imported from that city five and twenty years ago, were strictlyadhered to, admirable portraitures of which bird, in its genuine truthfulnessof delineation, is given in this volume of Mr. T. S. Coopers stock (on page10), and if these were taken as a model, — in our own opinion, breederscould not fail to approach perfection rapidly in producing birds of this typeof the now-called Cochins. On page 61 we give portraits of the original cock and hen (as illus-trated in Kerr and Dixon) ; and, on page 62, portraits of a trio of six monthsold Cochins (of the Queens variety) from the same work. These are like-. SEANGHAE, COCHIN, BRAHMA. 61 nesses of my early Cochin China stock, smooth limbed, taken from the birdsin my yards at Boxbury, Mass., in 1849; from which illustrations it will beseen how much these then called Cochins are like (or unlike) the so-called
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