preface; 



The small Work which I here present 

 to the reader, for his use and information, 

 I may presume to style truly practical, 

 ince I have throughout my life been a 

 breeder and keeper, and also an amateur 

 of domestic poultry, pigeons, and rabbits ; 

 at some periods, upon rather a considerable 

 scale ; and have for many years together, 

 kept a register of the results. I have 

 farther done that which, I believe, no other 

 man has taken the pains to do, — kept a 

 regular stud book for those breeders, 

 scarcely one of which wsls so poor as to be 

 without a name; and Regulus, Sampson, 

 Flea-catcher, Selima, Moreau, Isaac, and 

 Tom Paine, shine with peculiar lustre on 

 my poultry and pigeon list ; whilst Corney, 

 Buttercup, Adam, Beelzebub, Lucifer, Ca- 

 rolina, Hecuba, make a figure equally splen- 

 did and equally useful among the rabbits. I 



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