pullet, 7 pounds, 8 ounces. 



4 

 10 

 9 

 6 

 8 



4 

 5 



The above weights are accurate, but I -would remark that the fowls 

 are all rather lean in flesh. They are all labeled, and if they do not 

 lose their cards from their necks, you can readily select them. You 

 have long been well acquainted with fowls and know how difficult it 

 is to describe their precise color," <fec. 



Though these are " truly magnificent " fowls, as Mr. Cornish says, 

 still, I have made purchases of Mr. Hatch, of this breed, fully 

 equal both in weight and beauty, if not even superior. My breeders, of 

 Brahma Pootra stock, could not be purchased at a $100 per pair, they 

 are, certainly, the most magnificent fowls I ever saw of any breed. 



The Brahma Pootra fowls may be thus described : The cock is 

 mostly white, with neck hackles penciled with black, and rump 

 hackles of a gold or yellow color. The tail is black, with glossy, green 

 plume feathers. The wings and a portion of the neck hackles slightly 

 penciled with black. 



The pullets are white, with black tails, the wings and neck slightly 

 penciled with black. The comb is small and serrated, though fre- 

 quently they have the perfect pea-comb of the Sumatra Pheasant 

 Game fowl, which is always a rare indication of fineness of flesh. 

 The wattles are small, but the ear-lobes are extremely large and pen- 

 dulous. 



The legs are yellow, and usually very heavily feathered, though I 

 have seen some excellent specimens with smooth legs. 



Their weight at maturity is from twenty-two to twenty-five pounds 

 per pair, and they are quite symmetrical in their conformation. 



As layers they are unsurpassed by any breed. I have tried them 

 side by side with the Imperial Chinese, (Marsh stock,) and the Shan- 

 ghaes, (Forbes' stock,) and find the three breeds about equally pro- 

 lific. Dr. Elihu Halladay, of Ohio, in a letter to the writer, of 

 March 12th, 1852, says: "The Brahma Pootras, Imperial Chinese, 

 and Shanghaes, have layed most of the time this winter. They have 

 only stopped occasionally for a few days, and some of them hardly 

 stopped for the coldest weather. I can hardly tell which of these 

 breeds are the best layers." 



The Brahma Pootras, lay larger eggs than any other Asiatic fowls, 

 not excepting the great Hoang Ho fowls, recently imported from 

 Keangsoo, Shantung and Hoan, in the valley of the Hoang Ho river. 

 On an average their eggs are about fifty per cent, larger than those 

 of the Shanghaes, or Imperial Chinese Forbes and Marsh stocks. 



The Brahma Pootra fowls differ from the grey Chittagongs in the 

 following respects : They are lighter color ; shorter legged ; more 

 compact in form ; have larger ear-lobes, and smaller combs and wat- 



