14 Game, 



HILL FOWLS — GAME — -DAREING — POLAND 

 •— BANTAM CHITTAGONG, OF MALAY 



SHAGBAG — SPANISH, and their endless sub- 

 varieties. 



The common dunghill fowl needs no 

 description — of middling size, every varie- 

 ty of colour, and to be found in every part 

 of the country. 



Game. 



Game fowls are too well known to 

 require a particular description. Their 

 plumage, particularly the red, is most 

 beautiful and rich, their size somewhat be- 

 low tlie common, and their symmetry and 

 delicacy of limbs to be compared with 

 those of the race horse and the deer, or, in 

 more strict analogy, with the wild species 

 of their own genus. The ancients kept 

 game cocks for the same purpose as the 

 moderns, and their is a game breed, at 

 present existing in India, but I have not 

 iiitJierto obtained any information as to the* 

 t'riein of our game breed, Vfhich has been 



