'1.Y cocHiys. 





mose c=.;.-=. izs. i2.te -•Ir. iturgecsi gare, m 

 1S53, tins arcanut of tiae caigin of Jiis itjxk :- — 



is s. v^av a" ^ *^ ' - '"^ TsT^ sud 



bsa-iT. sr=d ■»T>ai3 



':^^- 



"-■srsci occa- 



.: 3 -D tZ= COC£ 



rKucujOus-v rxrra'i'Bggiii. anLi enidai uls cI 

 jf; psr pen of ttree. Accardiag to an 

 l;:;--: eivea bv Mr. Sturgeon to Mr. Ncrrls- 



Z.-.t"" Mr. Pnijcnard's -Dens -a-ere all r'a.:~£d. 



ai 7a: Feczka^ M :v^~ Orxs. 



and Mjt. Stnigeoo's w:_.z i ; ;t:- also. 

 orer and over again, bat the wouid-be bcyers 



■s-aited in tbe snpposilion that be woiild take 

 less, as Mr. P-oncbard's were so rnmch lower 

 ia price. Mr. Smigeon was thns enabled to 

 cla irn tbe entire lot, and keep tbem \- - - 

 own bands : and a year or two later 

 be had a sale — tbe first ponltrr sale :: :;.: 

 kmd erer beld — wikb was cxHidticted by- 

 Mr. '^.'TT.-rr ?t^5''?rd tbe late well-known 

 ' -i tbe pnblisber of 



'. his snrplns stock 

 -; :_- i_7_r z^^^-. i net total of ^609. 

 The Cochins thus introdnced into England 

 were perceptToly dif- 

 ferent trom tbe present 

 ^f^_ »yps t>f bird, tfaoiigb 



exhibiting in the main 

 — ^t the chief character- 



~ ^^ irr::5 which distin- 



; r : i ner features free: 

 other ra£2s of f :" I5. 

 Tl^ ac c r tuipaeyzjig 

 iIlTistratian, •rincn is 

 rsdiired from a draw- 

 ing bv tbe l:-f 

 Mr. Harrison ' ;.- 

 in tbe IIIiis:-z:cd 

 London Ne-j:s of is: 3, 

 ^sill show tbe cbar- 

 arters of tbe ^"y^rcs 

 iSzer tbev had settled 



vrLT or two of ex- 



:ililt;Dn. There wil 

 ;>e rensrked in r'nU 

 cc rtenporaiT.- drawing 

 ~" ----- tne g.coTi.F.r masses cf 



rnS" over tis ben's 

 - -- ^_^ ^g 4^:_-_, . - __.■_ j=^g5 . j4je siicrt 



".Li. : tne rr tLthered ^^hsTiki: ; 



- . ^m-sized i^--- :.::-_. tbe low and for- 



wand cairiage : tbe short i^s set wide ajert. Yet 



there is one diSerence of a marked character, 



apart nrnn tbe less amount of shank-feathering 



and absence of vnlture-hock. Tbe fiii^ masses 



- - ^_ 53_^^ Qjjj £ji eren more globular pro- 



: ^ than tbev do to-day ; and considering 



-' 'tr TTs observe that the plumage of 



- ' tbe bodj- in boA sexes is more 



."---- --t-ntting than now, and hence t>T"=: 



appears £ ~ . r -,.fT in propord'^n to the hinder-parts. 

 Tbe dinerence is dne more to plumage than 

 anything else, for Mr. Stnrgeon. writing in tbe 

 same year, insists on ' great depth from tbe 

 base of tbe neck to tbe point of the breast- 

 bone," and also on length of tbe latter. To 



