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CHAPTER VI. 



VARIETIES OF THE SHANGHAE FOWL. 



THE pure, thorough-bred Shanghae Fowl, in its varieties, is, 

 perhaps, the best, all things considered, of any which we know. 

 The portraits opposite represent a Stag, two Pullets, and a 

 Chick, which I bred last summer, and shipped to Henry Law- 

 rence, Esq., of Mobile. The Chick and Stag were unfortu- 

 nately lost on the voyage : their places I subsequently supplied 

 by others. The age of the Stag and Pullets, at the time they 

 were sketched, was about five months; the Stag had just com- 

 menced to crow, and weighed seven pounds and ten ounces ; the 

 Pullets had not begun to lay, and weighed each five pounds 

 and a half, good ; the age of the Chick was about six weeks. 

 The Stag and two Pullets are from a paU of Fowls, which I 

 designate the " HUNTRESS" variety, as they were brought 

 over in a ship of that name, direct from Shanghae, in the spring 

 of 1847. The father of the Stag and Pullets is now in the 

 possession of H. L. Devereux, Esq., of Boston. The father 

 of the Chick was imported last spring in the ship " TARTAR" 

 he is a noble fellow, and is now in the possession of E. K. Cope, 

 Esq., of this vicinity. Of those imported in 1847, per ship 

 " Huntress," the Hen was of a bay or light yellowish colour, 

 and the Cock a yellow or reddish dominique. About one-half 

 of the Stags from this pair are in plumage like the father, the 

 other half are yellow, or red, black tails, and occasionally black 



