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several kinds .'if hangl?ae&;* - Giveldemnd, and other 

 varieties, not therein specifically 'noticed. In addition 

 to this, there were wanting some remarks on the history 

 and method of making Capons, a practice which Mr. 

 Dixon seems, without sufficient reasons, inclined to con- 

 demn. There have been omitted, also, certain portions, 

 not deemed necessary or interesting to the American 

 Fancier. 



In order that the reader may know how deeply Mr. 

 Dixon is interested in the prosecution of this and kin- 

 dred branches of Natural History, and how far his views 

 and statements may consequently be relied on, I take the 

 liberty of extracting the following from a letter I received 

 from him twelve months ago. He says, " I beg to thank 

 you very sincerely for your friendly offers of assistance, 



and shall not hesitate to avail myself of them 



As soon as the second edition of my book is finished, 

 which .will be much enlarged, [the second is the one used 

 in preparing this^] I propose setting about a second 

 volume on Domesticated and Captive Birds, to comprise 

 the Fancy Pigeons, Guans, Curassows, Gold and Silver 



* The Editor is quite confident that the Fowl described in English 

 Treatises on Poultry, as the Cochin China, is, when pure, identical 

 with our thorough-bred Shanghaes. He avails himself of this occa- 

 sion to say, that though, in the main, he accords with the views and 

 statements of his kind and valued correspondents, herein recorded; 

 yet he would not be understood as agreeing with them in every par- 

 ticular. 



