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THE cut on the opposite page accurately represents im- 

 ported adult Shanghaes which their present owner, E. R. Cope, 

 Esq., procured from me last summer. They were imported 

 about the middle of last April, direct from the city of Shang- 

 hae, the head-quarters of this celebrated breed. The Cock I 

 suppose to be from eighteen to twenty months old the pre- 

 cise age of the Hen is not known. One of the hens weighed, 

 while in my keeping last .summer, nearly eight and a half 

 pounds, and I would here remark that pure Shanghae Hens 

 rarely exceed that. By crossing them with a Malay Cock, or, 

 indeed, any large Cock, not a Shanghae, they might be thus 

 made to produce mongrels that would draw nine, ten, or even 

 more pounds; but beyond a first cross, fertility, and every 

 other valuable quality, would doubtless be sacrificed to the 

 increase of bulk. 



I have just received a letter from my friend, H. L. Devereux, 

 Esq., of Boston, to whom I sent a pair of Shanghaes of my 

 1847 importation, and he writes, concerning them and their 

 progeny, as follows : 



" FRIEND K. : Yours of the 9th November, came duly to 

 hand, and just in the midst of our great Poultry Exhibition. 

 It would have pleased me amazingly for you to have seen with 

 your own eyes the vast amount of Poultry upon the ground. 

 Our tent was one hundred and fifty-four feet long, by 'one 

 hundred and fifty wide, filled completely with cages, reserving 

 room enough only for the people to walk. It was indeed a 

 magnificent exhibition, a report of which I will send you as 



soon as issued I have not done much for the last three 



weeks but prepare, attend to, and settle up the affairs of that 



exhibition Next week I will endeavour to send you 



aome matter for your forth-coming volume on Poultry 



