42 Pea and Guinea Fowls. 



goose-feeders near London, the stock is fed 

 upon the purest and best food, kept in tiie 

 highest state of cleanhness, and that they 

 are among the finest and best with whicli 

 the metropohs is suppHed. 



Fea a7id Guinea Fowls, 



The Peacock and Hen and Guinea 

 Fowls, are always kept by the London 

 dealers, whence any persons in the coun- 

 try, desirous of breeding thein, may be sup- 

 plied with breeding stock. Exclusive of the 

 consideration of ornament to a poultry yard, 

 the peacock is very useful for the destruc- 

 tion of all kinds of reptiles, but at the same 

 time, some peacocks are said to be vicious, 

 and apt to tear to pieces and devour young 

 chicks and ducklings, suffered to be within 

 their reach. They are also destructive in a 

 garden. 



This most beautiful of all the feathered 

 race, is supposed, originally, a native of 

 India, and peacocks are sfcid to be at pre- 

 sent found in a wild state, upon the islands 

 of Java and Ceylon. The history of kinp^ 



