. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. rta-tions, all from India ; and that when we correctBurnhams old statement about Dr. Kerrs birds * See Poultry Culture: Chicago, 264 THE BOOK OF POULTRY. being Chinese, and trace the Queen sectionof Burnhams stock, at least, to their propersource of the Cornish-Chamberlain blood fromRhode Island, the evidence is stronger thanever of the entire race tracing back, throughone importation or another, to the Chittagongdistrict of India, save only as it may have beencontaminated by crosses with
. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. rta-tions, all from India ; and that when we correctBurnhams old statement about Dr. Kerrs birds * See Poultry Culture: Chicago, 264 THE BOOK OF POULTRY. being Chinese, and trace the Queen sectionof Burnhams stock, at least, to their propersource of the Cornish-Chamberlain blood fromRhode Island, the evidence is stronger thanever of the entire race tracing back, throughone importation or another, to the Chittagongdistrict of India, save only as it may have beencontaminated by crosses with Burnhams orother Shanghaes. If this origin of the Brahma be borne in but more or less cropping up in all Indianraces. In such a composite race there arcalways the two types contending for themastery, and yielding to mans selection ;and it is instructive to see the Shanghae andIndian types (or in that case Indian archipelagotype) similarly contending for emergence in thefowl treated of in our next chapter. Howdifferent from the first Cochin type the earliestDark Brahmas were, can be seen from the. The First Dark Brahmas sent to England. mind, it will be easy to understand how it hasvaried in model according to the selection ofThe feather-legged Chittagong fowlwas obviously a graduallyformed to some rough type, of thesingle-combed, more fluffy, feather-legged, indolent Shanghae fowl,with a far more tight-feathered, active, andagile Indian stock, whose signs are found inthe longer tail, tighter plumage, and thatpea-comb, found most perfect in the Aseel, breeders. Variationin Type. accompanying illustration, reproduced from theField oi December 24, 1S53, of the first sent byMr. Burnham to Mr. John Baily, of which a pairwere speedily re-sold for ;{;lOO. It will benoticed at once that the birds are far more boldand active-looking, have far more tail, quitedifferent carriage, (upright instead of forward)and in particular, far more length of body. In what a noble form the Indi
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