VARIETIES OF DOMESTIC FOWL. 33 



above pair, at maturity, weighing over eighteen pounds. As 

 will be observed in the engraving, this variety is heavily feath- 

 ered upon the legs. 



The drawing gives a very correct idea of all the yellow vari- 

 eties, of the model, plumage, comparative size, and general 

 carriage of all these birds, than which there are none better 

 in America, for goodness of disposition, for laying properties, 

 for table use, or for early maturity. The roosters, when fully 

 grown, will stand upright, as shown in the engraving the 

 head about on a line with the height of a flour barrel. 



I am informed by Mr. T. Ames, of Marshfield, that one of 

 his neighbors, Mr. Phillips, has a pullet of this breed, which 

 laid a hundred and twenty eggs in a hundred and twenty-five 

 days, then stopped six days, then laid sixteen eggs more, and 

 stopped four days, and is now laying ; and that he (Mr. Ames) 

 has one that has done equally well. Mine have not equalled 

 this, though they have done exceedingly well. Their eggs are 

 rather lighter colored than those of the Cochin China breed. 

 The pullets commence laying when from five to seven months 

 old. 



Mr. Burnham makes the following judicious remarks, in the 

 Massachusetts Ploughman, in respect to the confusion so ex- 

 tremely prevalent in regard to the peculiarities of this breed. 

 " I am confident that these fowls are confounded with the 

 ' Cochin Chinas ,' and I think that several persons who have 

 this same stock now call it by that name. We have not had 

 this variety in America long enough, nor is the distinction suf- 

 ficiently well known, I imagine, generally, to determine between 

 the real Shanghae and the Cochin Chinas we have here, and 

 more commonly known by this last name. I make the distinc- 

 tion on the ground that all my imported Shanghaes (and I have 

 three different varieties, from different sources) are heavily feath- 

 ered upon the legs. 



