. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. JAPANESE B^ COCK. JAPANESE BANTAM PULLET. XI. Rumpless Fowls. Runiplcss fowls have been known for centuries at least. They were known in Virginia in the last century, and Buffon would have iiad the generation for wiiom lie wrote believe, tiiat short tails, or the want of tails was a eiiaracteristic of American animated creation ; and he gravely accepted as truth that English fowls gradually lost their tails when trans- planted to America. If he had been better informed ho would have known that
. The American farmer's pictorial cyclopedia of live stock ... Livestock; Veterinary medicine. JAPANESE B^ COCK. JAPANESE BANTAM PULLET. XI. Rumpless Fowls. Runiplcss fowls have been known for centuries at least. They were known in Virginia in the last century, and Buffon would have iiad the generation for wiiom lie wrote believe, tiiat short tails, or the want of tails was a eiiaracteristic of American animated creation ; and he gravely accepted as truth that English fowls gradually lost their tails when trans- planted to America. If he had been better informed ho would have known that Aldrovandus described the rumpless fowls moi-e than a hun- dred years before his time. It is the Persian or rumpless cock of Latham. They have been bred of various colors, including black. The most fashional)le variety now is pure white, with a small single comb as shown in the illustration. l\inn|)l('ss bantams have also been bred. In. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Periam, Jonathan. [from old catalog]; Baker, A. H. , [from old catalog] joint author. St. Louis, Mo. , N. D. Thompson & co.
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