20 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



to be selected to act as one of the judges, enabled him 

 to make a careful inspection and comparison of those 

 breeds of fowls whose nomenclature and arrangement 

 were most confused ; and by the kind and able assist- 

 ance, both previously and since, rendered by the gentle- 

 men connected with the management of that important 

 meeting, it may be said, without vain boasting, that a 

 fuller account is given of the Domestic Fowl, as at pre- 

 sent kept in England, than is to be found in any other 

 treatise on poultry. 



CRINGLEFORD, 



February, 1851. 



