Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; domesticfowlorna00rich Year: 1852 49 DOMESTIC FOWL. IX. THE GAME FOWL. The Game fowl is one of the most gracefully-formed, and most beautifully- colored of our domestic breeds of poultry; in its form and aspect, and in the extraordinary courage which characterizes its natural disposition, it exhibits all that either the naturalist or the sportsman recognizes as the beau ideal of high blood; embodying, in short, all the most indubitable charac- teristics of gallinaceous aristocracy. We do not possess any very satis
Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; Domestic fowl and ornamental poultry; domesticfowlorna00rich Year: 1852 49 DOMESTIC FOWL. IX. THE GAME FOWL. The Game fowl is one of the most gracefully-formed, and most beautifully- colored of our domestic breeds of poultry; in its form and aspect, and in the extraordinary courage which characterizes its natural disposition, it exhibits all that either the naturalist or the sportsman recognizes as the beau ideal of high blood; embodying, in short, all the most indubitable charac- teristics of gallinaceous aristocracy. We do not possess any very satisfactory record of the original country of the Game fowl; but I am disposed to cede that honor to India, the natives of which country have alwaj^s been remarkable for their love of cock- fighting ; and we also know that there etill exists in India an original variety of game cock, very similar to our own, but inferior in point of size. As to the date or occasion of their first introduction into the British islands, we know nothing certain ; but it is probable that we owe it to the invasion of Julius Caesar, the Romans having been very fond of the sport of cock- fighting.
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