. The poultry book : a treatise on breeding and general management of domestic fowls : with numerous original descriptions, and portraits from life . points of affinity with the Malaytribe, that there can be no impropriety in associating it withthem. It is more beautiful than most of the variety, thephimage of the cock being extremely brilliant and gaudy. The fowls delineated here were imported by Mr. John , of the Tremont House, Boston, and were drawn fromthe birds in possession of Mr. James S. Parker, of the SamosetHouse, Plymouth. A glance at the portraits will show that VARIETIES O
. The poultry book : a treatise on breeding and general management of domestic fowls : with numerous original descriptions, and portraits from life . points of affinity with the Malaytribe, that there can be no impropriety in associating it withthem. It is more beautiful than most of the variety, thephimage of the cock being extremely brilliant and gaudy. The fowls delineated here were imported by Mr. John , of the Tremont House, Boston, and were drawn fromthe birds in possession of Mr. James S. Parker, of the SamosetHouse, Plymouth. A glance at the portraits will show that VARIETIES OF DOMESTIC FOWL. 55 they are magnificent birds. They are exceedingly rare in thiscountry, this being the only importation of which I have knowl-edge. The average weight is from eight to fourteen hens are good layers, and the eggs have every mark of theEast Indian origin of the race, being dark-colored and large-volked. The cocks are remarkable for their SHAKEBAG HEN. Richardson says : A good many years ago, there used tobe a variety of fowl much in request in England, called the Shakebag, or the Duke of Leeds fowl, his grace, of thatname, about sixty or seventy years ago, having been a greatamateur breeder of them. These fowl were as large as theMalays, but differed from them in the superior whiteness andtenderness of their flesh, as also in their very superior fightingabilities. Mowbray thus writes of one in his possession — The only one I ever possessed was a red ope, in 1784, weigh-ing about ten pounds, which was provided for me, at the priceof one guinea, by GofF, the dealer, who then lived uponHolborn Hill, in London, and who, at the end of two years,received him back at half a guinea, having allowed me, in the 56 THE POULTRY-BOOK. interim, three shillings and sixpence each for such thorough-bred cock chickens as I chose to send him. At that period,the real Duke of Leeds fowl had become very scarce,which induced the dealers to
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