VARIETIES OF DOMESTIC FOWL. 



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THE DORKING FOWL. 



THE fowls here represented are accurate likenesses from life, 

 from stock imported by John Giles, Esq., of Providence. This 

 stock was selected personally by Mr. Giles, in the town of 

 Dorking, in Surrey, England, and are undeniably the best 

 specimens of that breed ever imported into this country. Their 

 color is a perfect white, without any shade whatever. The 

 legs are white, and they have five toes, which marks are inva- 

 riable characteristics of a pure breed. These particular fowls 

 are now in the possession of Mr. Stephen Perkins, of Plym- 

 outh, who has the reputation of being a very careful breeder. 

 Mr. Giles says that fowls of this breed average from six to 

 eight pounds each. 



Dr. Eben Wight, of Boston, imported some of the fowls in 

 the year 1839, and though he has since bred them " in and in," 



