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the most substantial nutriment. Being too 

 long legged they are not, generally, steady 

 setters. 



Buffon introduces several foreign varie- 

 ties, of which I have no practical knowledge 



the HAMBURGH COCK, the WONDERFUL 



INDIAN COCK, and the Muscovite black 

 GAME HEN. I havc heard of a West In- 

 dia breed which are everlasting layers. 

 The wonderful Indian cock is described as 

 a bird of most beautiful plumage, consist- 

 ing of the follow^ing five colours — black, 

 white, green, red, and blue. The back part 

 of the head has a sort of fleshy substance of 

 pyramidal figure, scaly, and of a blood red 

 colour: the bill thick and strong, and the 

 breast mottled beautifully, with red and 

 green. The tail consists of twelve large 

 Haming feathers, resembling those of a pea- 

 cock. The comb upon the head is double, 

 with a single wattle hanging beneath the 

 lower mandible, an inch and half long ; the 

 beak and legs yellow. It is a wild fowl, 

 but easily domesticated. Notliing is said 

 the quality of its flesh. 



