iv THE BOOK OF POULTRY. 



Several new Coloured Plates are added to this edition, either portraying new varieties or else 

 differences in type since the last edition was published. It is no small gratification to me that 

 in this side of my work I had the assistance of Mr. J. W. Ludlow, whose artistic connection with 

 The Book of Poultry since its first edition in 1S72 thus remains unbroken. 



The inclusion of a chapter on Mendelism by so expert and practical a fancier as the Rev. 

 E. Lewis Jones, B.A., will, I trust, put before breeders new and useful theories. These, if 

 studied in conjunction with Wright's masterly chapter on pedigree or line breeding, will do 

 much to keep poultry-keepers on right lines in raising stock, either for fancy or utility pur- 

 poses. 



A further addition is a short life of Lewis Wright by myself, and many who have profited 

 by my old friend's writings will welcome this and the portrait which accompanies it. Finally 

 I may, perhaps, be pardoned in saying that it is no small gratification to me, after thirty years 

 of close friendship with Lewis Wright, to be afforded by ^Messrs. Cassell the opportunity of 

 adding in the smallest degree to the continued usefulness of his lasting monument — The BoOK 

 OF Poultry. 



S. H. LEWER. 



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Photogiaihcd cii Messrs. II m. Cook a;d Sons Far,,,, Orpington, Kent. 



