SHANGHAE FOWLS. 



R. C. M 'COR MICK, JR 



SHANGHAES. 

 Eighteen Months Old Bred from Imported Stock. 



friend Miner, In fulfilment of my promise, I now send you 

 sketches of some of my fowls, taken from life, a few days since. The 

 specimens portrayed, are fair representatives of the kind that I have 

 bred for several years past, the Shanghaes, and which I now esteem 

 much higher than any other variety that has yet attracted my atten- 

 tion. In 1851, I obtained from the bark "Gallego," at New York, 

 from Shanghae direct, a number of pairs of Shanghae fowls, equal in 

 size and quality, I believe, to any of the celebrated importations hith- 

 erto made. From these fowls I have raised a large number, and their 

 progeny well sustain their characteristics. The drawing of old 

 fowls, now forwarded, was taken from a pair bred from the import- 

 ed stock, and now eighteen months old. No attempt has been made 

 to put flesh upon them ; they have the run of the farm, and pick up 

 most of their living thereabouts, and are now only in ordinary condi- 

 tion. Their weight, a few days since, was nineteen pounds; and, 

 highly fed, they would, in all probability, draw a number of pounds 

 more. The cock is of a dark-red color ; his legs, very large, of a 



