54 SHANGHAE FOWLS. 



hope that those bred here are of pure blood. My anxiety to 

 furnish a true history of the various breeds, led me to make 

 the foregoing remarks, presuming that the S. C. Poultry Society 

 spoke with authority, and understandingly, and the fowls being 

 so scarce and unknown, except to a few individuals, that I, in 

 the haste of putting my work to press with the utmost despatch, 

 to meet the demands of the public, was compelled to omit to 

 apply for further and more distinct information. 



