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trimmed, (in the comb at least,) in case they should 

 be wanted in a hurry for a private spar. 



The game cock approaches nearer to the Malay and 

 pheasant-Malay than to any other variety of fowl. As 

 I have made the Spanish fowl, on account of his 

 well-developed single comb, the type of the genus, so, 



THE ENGLISH GAME COCK. 



in any circular arrangement of the genus itself, I 

 should make the game fowl the centre from which the 

 rest, in one way or another, diverge. There are the 

 white-legged, the yellow-legged, and the leaden or 

 black-legged game fowl, all of which vary in the color 

 of their plumage. No other breed runs off into so 

 many varieties, which still are all " true game fowls." 

 The catalogue of sorts is a long one ; and many 

 of them have been preserved in various noble and 

 gentle families, in Europe, distinct. At present, the 

 Earl of Derby possesses a breed which has been in 

 possession of that noble family for many generations, 

 and which is sedulously preserved from base alloy. It 



