. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. d opposite. It re-ceives its name from the placewhere it: is most numerously bred,and it is computed lliat the sales ofit there amount to abo
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. d opposite. It re-ceives its name from the placewhere it: is most numerously bred,and it is computed lliat the sales ofit there amount to about $100,000per annum. As for size the rightweight is from 8 to 9 lbs. Its plu-mage should be of the purest snow-white throughout; the head full;the bill well set on the skull, so thatthe beak is seemingly almost in aline from the toj) of the head to thetip. The bill is quite long, andwhen seen from the front resemblesa woodcocks, is of a delicate flesh-color, without spot or blemish, witha slight fleshy excrescence wherethe feathers commence; the eye isfull, bright and quite black; the legs are strong, and the feet wellwebbed, and in color of a rich dark yellow or orange; the body israther long, but broad across the shoulders; the neck is quite longand sk-nder; the drake has one or two sharp curls in its tail. Instdecting breeding-fowls the drakes should be chosen with very longbills, like a woodcocks^ and ducks with broad backs and large Aylsbury Duck. The Pekin Duck was nnknown in the Tnited States and Europe until the year I8T2, when anenterprising American obtainedthe eggs in China, placed themunder hens at Shanghai (China),and shipped the product to NewYork, and thence to Stonington,Conn. Since then they havethriven and increased in a nota-ble degree, those brought froniChina proving very prolific. Thebreed faas been kept pure andimproved by later importationsfrom Asia. These ducks arewhite, with a yellowish tinge tothe under part of the wings are a
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