PART II. 



DESCRIPTION OP THE DIFFERENT BREEDS AND VARIETIES OS 

 WATER-JOWL, TURKEYS, PEA AND GUINEA FOWLS. 



CHINA (OR TCHIN TCHlj) GEESE. 



Mr. C. R. Belcher, of East Randolph, Massachusetts, who 

 has been one of the most successful breeders of the above 

 denominated variety of geese, (or what is popularly considered 

 to have a close affinity to the Anser tribe,) furnishes the follow- 

 ing particulars respecting them : 



The China Geese, -which I have bred for some time past, are gene- 

 rally considered natives of Hong Kong, and are very often named 



