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the wing outwardly looks as it does in the cuts ; and yet, it, on 

 examination, is found tucked or folded up and forward, expos- 

 ing more than in any other breed the thigh and side of the fowl. 

 When young, before the tail begins to appear, which is not 

 until the fowl is about four months old, the wings lie folded on 

 the back, and subsequently they fall lower down. The feathers 

 on the back of the neck do not, in reality, run the contrary way, 

 though to a casual observer, such as, in all probability, was 

 the person who wrote the description of the queen's fowls, 

 there is something peculiar in the arrangement where the 

 hackles and the back feathers meet ; yet nothing to justify the 

 assertion 'turned upwards.' The hackles and lower feathers 

 do not, in meeting, form so smooth a finish as in other fowls, 

 and perhaps this gave rise to the error ' turned upwards.' The 

 Jago cock, as seen in Mr. Dickson's book, appears to have the 

 feathers on the upper part of the neck and back of the head 

 ' turned upwards,' and this fowl may have been confounded, for 

 the moment, with the Cochin China. I am constrained to 

 regard the writer in error in that particular, especially as he 

 would be more likely to err than the artist who contradicts him 

 in the portrait." 



Of the purity of blood of Mr. Rugg's stock there can be no 

 question, as they were imported by him, through Mr. Taylor, 

 of New York, in the ship Huntress, in May 1847, direct from 

 Cochin China. Mr. Rugg states that his fowls are sufficiently 

 well portrayed in the pictures of the queen's fowls, and differ 

 in no respect, except in having the legs heavily feathered, 

 which is regarded by him as an unimportant circumstance, 

 which will not be observed, after they have been in the country 

 a few years. 



Mr. Rugg sought of the importer such information as he 

 had in reference to his original stock ; and the information thus 

 derived, together with his own experience, will now be de- 



