SHANGHAE FOWLS. 69 



ever made. The imported cock weighs twelve pounds and a quarter, 

 and the hen eight pounds, though she is yet young, and has not 

 near attained her full size. The color is a bright yellow, and the birds 

 have all the usual characteristics of the best blooded Shanghaes. I 

 think them equal to any I have ever seen. Mr. De Gruy, in a letter 

 to me, of the 10th of December, 1852, in speaking of these fowls, 

 Bays : ' I consider them extraordiuny birds, and the finest, largest, and 

 best ones in America.' They are larger than Brown's Importation, but 

 resemble them in color." 



