. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". ingle-combed and pea-combed ; it issmooth-limbed, and feathered upon the legs ; it is short-legged and long-shanked ; it is bred of all colors, from pure white to dead black; it is found,at times, long-bodied,stout and rangy in form, — or oftenest, compactlybuilt, broad-backed, full-breasted, and shapely; its proportions are massiveand commanding, and the better strains are comely, though inclining to aheavy or clumsy exterior: yet in all, and over all, it has come to be esteemeda general favorite everywhere, in some one or more of its differ
. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". ingle-combed and pea-combed ; it issmooth-limbed, and feathered upon the legs ; it is short-legged and long-shanked ; it is bred of all colors, from pure white to dead black; it is found,at times, long-bodied,stout and rangy in form, — or oftenest, compactlybuilt, broad-backed, full-breasted, and shapely; its proportions are massiveand commanding, and the better strains are comely, though inclining to aheavy or clumsy exterior: yet in all, and over all, it has come to be esteemeda general favorite everywhere, in some one or more of its different colors andshapes. And it is safe to assert that no domestic fowl the world has everyet produced can excel this race in the admiration of a majority of thebreeders and fanciers of the present day. SHANGHAE, COCEIK, BRAHMA. 13 Upon page 10, for example, will be found an excellent illustration of apair of thorough-bred China fowls, a cock and hen of the now so-called Par-tridge Cochins* This pair of fowls are true representatives of the Chinese. YOUNG COCK AND PULLET j EAELY CHINA FOWLS. race generally; and the artistic drawing mentioned is one of the most accu-rate I have ever met with. Without entering at present upon the qualitiesof this particular pair of birds (which are life-like representations of two 14 TEE CHINA FOWL. specimens imported by T. S. Cooper, Esq., of Coopersburg, Perm., from Eng-land, lately), we will only say here that we point to that portraiture as avery perfect delineation of the naturally-foxmed better than ordinary type ofpure Chinese poultry, whose characteristics, in their original condition, wewill now describe in detail, as our long experience with this race has taughtus to see the genuine Shanghae stock in America. We write the term Shanghae here advisedly, for the simple reason thatalmost all the known importations of these notable fowls came into theUnited States originally from the port of Shanghae, China, and for yearswere thus denominated
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