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which Col. Mark Noble and myself purchased in the east. Col. 

 Noble, of this place, has some very fine stock of the Chinese Albin 

 Games. 



J. A. C. Butters, in speaking of these fowls, in a letter dated West 

 Roxbury, April 20th, 1852, says: "I think you have, this season, 

 bettor hens than they have in Georgia far better." In another letter 

 of April 23d, Mr. Butters says: "These are the most thorough Game 

 of any breed in this country, and you are very fortunate to possess 

 them, as you will have a distinct breed of fowls which will breed 

 'in-and-in' and never change a feather, and as to Game, it will be. 

 unsurpassed." Mr. Butters is an amateur breeder, and an excellent 

 judge of Games. 



My friend, Col. Allen G. Summer, of Pomaria, S. C., has lately 

 received some splendid specimens of Albin Games, relative to which, 

 in a letter of June 8th, 1852, he says: "I am breeding some snow 

 white Game fowls the stock imported from China through California. 

 They are the most beautiful birds in the world, and extremely pug- 

 nacious." 



Mr. George P. Burnham, the editor of the New England Cultiva- 

 tor, in his July number, page 209, in speaking of my Albin Games, 

 remarks : " His White Chinese Games, are also a superb variety, and 

 he claims that they are ' fast' fighters, and of sure endurance and bot- 

 tom." 



The favorable opinion of such respectable men as Summer, Griggs, 

 Smith, and Butters, is enough to establish the character of any breed 

 of Games ; and I think those who fancy white fowls can find no better 

 bloods than the Chinese Albin Games. 



JOHN C. BENNETT. 



SPANISH GAME FOWL. 



This fowl is thus described in the " Poultry Book," by Dr. 

 Bennett : 



"The specimens exhibited at our late Fowl Fair, were deemed the 

 handsomest of the kind on the ground. 



" The cock weighs five and a quarter pounds, and the hen, his mate> 

 three pounds and fourteen ounces. 



" This is the kind called the English fowl by Buffon and the French 

 writers ; it is more slender in the body, the neck, the bill, and the 

 legs, than the other sorts, and the colors, particularly of the cock, 

 arc very bright and showy. The flesh is white, tender and delicate, 

 and on this account, marketable. The plumage is very beautiful a 

 clear dark red, very bright, extending from the back to the extremi- 

 ties, while the breast is beautifully black. The upper convex side of 

 the wing is equally red and black, and the whole of the tail-feathers 

 black. The beak is black, and the legs are black also. The eyes 

 resemble jet beads, very full and brilliant, and the whole contour of 

 the head gives a most ferocious expression. 



The flesh of this fowl is remarkably fine ; the egga are small, and 

 extremely delicate." 



