THE DOMESTIC FOWL. 



MiilSy Fowl. 



Game Cock. 



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Bantam;, male and female. 



The Domestic Fowls are too well known to need much 

 description. There are many varieties. The Game Fowl was 

 formerly in great request for the cruel sport of cock-fighting, 

 an amusement which, although happily now almost extinct, 

 was in great vogue but a few years since. 



The Bantam is a very little bird indeed, but exceedingly 

 courageous, and does not hesitate to attack a Turkey or such 

 large birds with most amusing pompousness of manner. Some 

 Bantams have tlmir legs thickly covered with feathers down 

 to the very toes. 



The Dorking I owl is a large and delicate species. The 

 chief peculiarity in this bird is the doable hind toe, so that it 

 has five toes instead of four. 



The Malay Fowl, though an awkward, bony, leggy, cowardly 

 bird, wandering about for the first six months of its existence 

 with scarcely a feather to cover its nakedness, is } r et not so 

 bad a fowl as it has been represented to be. But unless they 

 arc of pure breed, their flesh will be found coarse and stringy. 



Dorking Fowl 



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Common Barn-yard Fowl 



