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fawn-colored) and the White. The Yellow Shanghaes were 

 imported from the city of Shanghae, in China, (whence their 

 name,) by Captain R. B. Forbes, in 1848. I procured, at an 

 early period, some of the most pure of this noble breed. In 

 general shape and appearance they resemble the Cochin China 

 fowl, though they have greater depth of quarter, and less depth 

 of breast, and are of a lighter color. Their legs are uniformly 

 large, usually of a bright red and yellow or white mixture, 

 sometimes flesh-colored, and very heavily feathered. Their 

 general plumage is of a bright yellow or gold color, variegated 

 with dark brown and red. The tail is short comparatively ; the 

 body is well formed ; the wings small and high up on the sides ; 

 the gait proud and showy ; the legs, when young, rather lengthy 

 for beauty ; the head full sized ; comb single, straight and ser- 

 rated ; and the feathers rather fine and downy, than otherwise. 

 There is very little disposition among them to quarrel : the hens 

 are excellent nurses, the roosters good " protectors," and thus 

 far they have been found hardy and healthy generally. 



The perfect uniformity in size in all chickens of the same age 

 of this breed, prove them beyond doubt to be a distinct race, and 

 they are among the most healthy, hardy, and rapid-growing 

 chickens I have ever seen. Out of fifty odd chickens of this 

 breed, not one of them has faltered this season. 



The variety of domestic fowl which the above engraving 

 represents, is, in my estimation, one of the very best known in 

 America at the present time, all things considered. The rooster 

 and pullet above delineated show a pair selected from the breed- 

 ing stock of G. P. Burnham, Roxbury, Mass., and the artist 

 has produced a lifelike representation of them. The' above pair 

 are from a brood hatched in early May last ; the crower will 

 ow weigh over eight and a half pounds, the pullet six and a 

 half. They are out of the famous Forbes importation of Shang- 

 hae fowls. They grow to a large size, the parents of the 



