. color usually dark brown, streaked with yellow, sometimes, however, white; his form and appearance are grand and striking in the extreme, and he is no small embellishment to the poultry-yard. This fowl is also fre- quently called the Chittagong. The kind of Malay fowl, however, that were originally imported, were by no means such birds as I could recommend to the notice of the breeder, their size possessing too much offal, as neck, legs, and thighs, and the flesh, more- over, being dark-colored and oily. Another variety has been since intro- duced, which is well worthy of our attention. As a
. color usually dark brown, streaked with yellow, sometimes, however, white; his form and appearance are grand and striking in the extreme, and he is no small embellishment to the poultry-yard. This fowl is also fre- quently called the Chittagong. The kind of Malay fowl, however, that were originally imported, were by no means such birds as I could recommend to the notice of the breeder, their size possessing too much offal, as neck, legs, and thighs, and the flesh, more- over, being dark-colored and oily. Another variety has been since intro- duced, which is well worthy of our attention. As a cross, this Malay has, indeed, proved a most valuable addition to our poultry-yard, the cross-breed possessing all the hardiness of our native domestic fowl, with the gigantic size of the foreign stock. 11. THE JAVA FOWL. Resembling the Malay in shape, but presenting, in portions of its plum- age, the coloring of the Dorking. I hold this, its common appellation, to be a misnomer, and regard it as the result of a cross between a Malay and
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