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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



have large, single, serrated combs, the top running considerably 

 beyond its point of attachment to the head. His neck is about 

 nine inches long, and is somewhat arched ; wings short, round- 

 ed outward, their shoulders concealed in the breast-feathers, 

 and their tips covered by the body-feathers and the saddle- 

 hackle. His breast is broad, but wanting in fullness; the 

 thighs are wide apart, large, comparatively short, smooth in 

 Fig. 36. 



THE SHANGHAI FOWL. 



some, in others heavily feathered quite down to the knees; 

 shanks should be short, and, with the booted, more or less 

 feathered down the outer edge, quite to the end of the outer 

 toe ; the stern is densely covered with long downy feathers, 

 technically called "fluff," well rounded out; the hackle, both 

 of neck and saddle, is long and abundant; while the tail is 

 short and sometime.- covered by the long saddle-feathers. The 



