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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



WILD FOWL. 



Sormerat's Jungle Fowl ~... 82 



Bankiva Jungle Fowl 85 



Ceylon Jungle Fowl 87 



Fork-tail Fowl 88 



Fire-backed Jungle Fowl 89 



Australian Jungle Fowl 91 



CHAPTER V. 



ASIATIC FOWLS. 



Malay Fowl 98 



Kulm Fowl 98 



Cochin Fowl... 101 



Shanghai Fowl 104 



Brahma Fowls Ill 



Emeu Shanghai Fowl 114 



CHAPTER VI. 



FARM-YARD FOWLS. 



Game Fowl 116 



Dominique Fowl 121 



Dorking Fowl 123 



Bucks County Fowl 129 



Ostrich Fowl 130 



Bolton Gray Fowl 131 



Frizzled Fowls 133 



Silky Fowl 134 



Rumpless Fowl 136 



Spanish Fowl 138 



Hamburg Fowls 141 



Silver-penciled Hamburg 142 



Golden-spangled Hamburg 143 



Golden-penciled Hamburg 144 



Silver-spangled Hamburg 144 



Specimen Feather 145 



Black Hamburg Fowl 145 



Bantam Fowl 146 



Black Bantam 148 



Java Bantam 150 



Nankin Bantam 151 



Sebright Bantam 151 



Creeper Fowl 154 



PaduanFowl.. . 155 



CHAPTER VII. 



CRESTED FOWLS. 



Black Poland Fowl 159 



Golden-crested Fowl 162 



Silver-crested Fowl 164 



Russian Fowl 165 



Crisp-feathered Fowl 166 



Golden-spangled Poland Fowl 167 



White Poland Fowl .. 167 



Silver-spangled Crested Fowl '. . 168 



Ptarmigan Fowl 169 



Serai Taook, or Sultan's Fowl 172 



CHAPTER VIII. 



INCUBATION. 



Artificial Hatching 178 



Reaumur's Hatching Apparatus 1 79 



Bonnemain's Incubator 180 



TaePotolokian.. 184 



Mr. Cantelo's Hydro-incubator 185 



American Egg-hatching Machine 186 



Minasi's Incubator 186 



Scientific Hatching Machine 187 



