. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". the fowls recently presented to Her Majesty by Mr. G. , under the name of ( Gray Shanghaes, are admitted by Dr. Bennettto be precisely similar to his otcn. And Mr. Burnham assures me that theoriginal stock from which the 6 Gray Shanghaes presented to Her Majestywere bred was imported direct from Shanghae. All of which is perfectly correct, as I have herein shown. The fowls I sentto the Queen were bred from the first two Grays received from Philadelphia,which stock Dr. Kerr informed me came from Shanghae,— and out of the secondlot I g
. The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma.". the fowls recently presented to Her Majesty by Mr. G. , under the name of ( Gray Shanghaes, are admitted by Dr. Bennettto be precisely similar to his otcn. And Mr. Burnham assures me that theoriginal stock from which the 6 Gray Shanghaes presented to Her Majestywere bred was imported direct from Shanghae. All of which is perfectly correct, as I have herein shown. The fowls I sentto the Queen were bred from the first two Grays received from Philadelphia,which stock Dr. Kerr informed me came from Shanghae,— and out of the secondlot I got in New York, through Mr. Porter, from on board a ship direct fromthe port of Shanghae. No Dark Brahmas had then been seen, or alluded Bennetts earliest chickens were bred out of that very first Philadelphiapair of Grays; and later birds were bred by him from the progeny of thatstock, and other younger fowls I supplied him with in 1851 and 1852, andafterwards. He always admitted this. He had no occasion to deny or dis- 72 THE CHINA FOWL. AMERICAN DARK BRAHMA COCK AND HEN. M BLACK PRINCE n AND Birds, bred by Philander Williams, Taunton, Mass, SHANGHAE, COCHIN, BRAHMA. 73 pute it. The Doctor always gave me credit for what was then exactly differed simply in our opinions as to what name this splendid variet}should be called by. I adhered to Gray Shanghae; and he coined thetitle of Burampootra, Brahma-Poutra, and finally Brahma, as it nowstands in England and America. And this brings me to further authoritative corroborating evidence uponthis point, occurring in 1852, and referring directly to the controversy thenrife in this country, about the naming of this stock — up to this time allbeing Light Brahmas — to wit: — At the third or fourth Boston show, in the fall of 1852, the Committeeof Judges—consisting of Dr. Eben Wight, Dr. Bennett, Messrs. Andrews,Fussell, and Balch — reported in extenso, officially, upon the Chinese varie-ties. From th
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