. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . es not sit; ihethird says she is among Pheasants what the Cuckoj is amr>ngsmall birds ; the last says she is a hen that, failing to fiad a mate, turned cock in self-defence. Mr. Yarrell and the writerof this made the first dissection of a hen-coek ; the egg-orgauswere ruptured, the bowels were saturated with yolk, and hencethe change. The truth is, when the propensities of one sex aretampered with and destroyed, accidentally or not, they are re-pUced by the opposite one. This is the history of your Duck. THE JACOBIN. We now
. Journal of horticulture, cottage gardener and country gentlemen . es not sit; ihethird says she is among Pheasants what the Cuckoj is amr>ngsmall birds ; the last says she is a hen that, failing to fiad a mate, turned cock in self-defence. Mr. Yarrell and the writerof this made the first dissection of a hen-coek ; the egg-orgauswere ruptured, the bowels were saturated with yolk, and hencethe change. The truth is, when the propensities of one sex aretampered with and destroyed, accidentally or not, they are re-pUced by the opposite one. This is the history of your Duck. THE JACOBIN. We now submit a few observations on the Jacobin, or, a? itis more commonly termed in the fancy, ■ the Jack. \Yeshall endeavour to be concise, in order that our remarks m*ybe the more readily comprehended by the uninitiated and the young fanciers, for whose enlightenment we are mainly striving,anil that they may be the means, we hope, of extending theciiUivation of this interesting vaiiety. We shall not attemptto deal with the questions of its origin and the manner in. i^i&i^i*
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