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THE POULTRY-BOOK. 



COCHIN CHINAS OF THE BAYLIES IMPORTATION. 



One pair of these fowls was imported by Alfred Baylies, M. 

 D., of Taunton, (through his nephew,) in July 1846, direct 

 from Cochin China, and placed in the hands of Mr. E. Howard, 

 of Raynham, for breeding. I procured a cockerel of Dr. Bay- 

 lies, and a pullet of Mr. Howard, in 1847, from which my 

 stock were produced. The portrait is taken from a fowl reared 

 by Mr. Howard. At one year old, the cockerel weighed eight 

 pounds and twelve ounces, and the pullet, six pounds and five 

 ounces. She layed twenty-four eggs at her first litter ; I then 

 set her, and before she drove off her chickens, she laid twenty- 

 three eggs more. Her mother layed nighty-four eggs, from 

 the last day of March to the 14th of August, 1847. They are 



