OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS 



FIG. 38. Buff Cochin hen 1 



of Europe. Some of these fowls 

 the visitors had seen. 

 The Aseel of India was 

 a small but very strong, 

 stocky type of Game. 

 Among the Malayans 

 the common fowl was 

 a large, coarse type of 

 Game. The hens of 

 these breeds laid eggs 

 of a reddish-brown color, 

 while hens of all the 

 races of Europe laid 

 white eggs. Birds of 

 both these types were 

 taken to England early 

 in the last century, and 

 perhaps in small num- 

 bers before that time. 



into China and India some 

 thousand years ago the stock 

 which went to those countries 

 and that which descended 

 from it was completely iso- 

 lated from the fowls of 

 Western Asia, Africa, and 

 Europe until the eighteenth 

 century. When commerce 

 between Europe, India, and 

 the East Indies began, the 

 Europeans found in these 

 countries fowls of a much 

 more rugged type than those 

 were much larger than any that 



FIG. 39. Buff Cochin cock 1 



Photograph from Tienken and Case, Rochester, Michigan. 



