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COCHIN CHINA FOWLS. 



COCHIN CHINA FOWLS. 



This drawing represents a fine group of domestic fowls, 

 known as the " Cochin China ; " a race of birds belonging to 

 the great tribe of Chinese, or Eastern poultry, and comprised 

 in the gallus giyanteus of modern ornithologists. The two 

 samples above delineated, were selected from the stock of Geo. 

 P. Burnham, Esq., of Boston, Mass., who has imported several 

 lots of these fowls from England and China, and were drawn 

 from life, and engraved accurately from the originals. 



Notwithstanding what has been written in reference to this 

 breed, there remains little doubt in the minds of experienced 



