AS POULTRY EXPERT 93 



As a fancier, Tegetiueier was intimately asso- 

 ciated with the first breeders of cochins, or as 

 they should be called, Shanghais, since they 

 came to this country from Shanghai at the close 

 of the Chinese War of 1843, although at the first 

 poultry show held at the Zoological Gardens, in 

 1845, when prizes were offered for Asiatic breeds, 

 no such birds were exhibited. The first examples 

 were shown by Her Majesty Queen Victoria, at 

 the Royal Dublin Agricultural Society's show 

 in 1846, and the birds did not get into the 

 possession of the public until Mr. Sturgeon 

 obtained his stock in 1847 from a ship that came 

 from Shanghai. Although a breeder of many 

 varieties, Tegetmeier's views were always those 

 of a naturalist anxious to ascertain the extent of 

 variation, and how it could be produced and 

 regulated, rather than those of a poultry fancier. 

 Consequently his experiments in breeding were 

 usually confined to new varieties made by him- 

 self.* He showed, and obtained first prizes at 

 Anerley, Birmingham, and elsewhere for rumpless 

 bantams of very marked formation, and at the 

 exhibitions at Anerley, which preceded the Crystal 

 Palace shows, he won a prize for black-crested 

 white Polish fowls in 1856. He was also the 

 first producer and exhibitor of brown-red game 

 bantams, taking a prize for them at the Crystal 

 Palace Show of 1861. 



* See the Stock-keeper of December 25th, 1903. 



