FANCIERS' JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Joseph M. 

 Wade, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at "Washington. 



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ANCIERS' JjoUENAL AND IpOULTRY (j^XCHANGE, 

 JOSEPH M. WADE, Editor and Proprietor. 



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OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Our illustrations this week, representing the setter dog 

 "Grouse," and pair of light Brahmas, "Gladiator" and 

 " Grand Duchess," are photo-lithographs from pen-and-ink 

 sketches, made by Theophilus P. Chandler (architect to the 

 Zoological Society of this, city), from photographs taken 

 from life. We hope to be able to give one or more of these 

 full-page engravings weekly. As this style of illustration 

 is more or less an experiment, we hope to improve with 

 every issue ; all we ask is a generous support from fanciers, 

 and we will make the Journal all they could wish for. 



ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR PRIZE. 



Mk.Wm. H. Churchman, President of the American Poul- 

 try Association, offers a special prize of one hundred dollars 

 ($100), for the best dark Brahma hen, regardless of age, to 

 be exhibited at the Buffalo show, January 15th, 1874. Por 

 each entry a fee of $5 will be charged for the benefit of 

 the Society. Each exhibitor, when making his entry, re- 

 linquishes all claim over his fowl. No matter how many 

 fowls are entered for this prize, the winner is to take them 

 all, in addition to the $100 in gold. 



AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



Office of American Poultry Association, 

 39 N. Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 

 A meeting of the above Association will be held in the 

 city of Buffalo, New York, commencing on January 15th, at 

 2 p.m., at which time the American Standard of Excellence 

 will be thoroughly revised to suit the present views of Fan- 

 ciers. All persons not members of the above Association are 

 cordially invited to be present, to give their views and assist 

 in the above work. Further information will be cheerfully 

 given by addressing 



Joseph M. Wade, 



Secretary, Philadelphia. 

 William H. Churchman, 



President. 



(For Fanciers' Journal.) 



CONNECTICUT STATE POULTRY SOCIETY. 



The Fifth Annual Exhibition of this Society will be held 

 at Hartford on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of December. 

 From evidences already shown it will be the finest exhibi- 

 tion ever held in Connecticut. 



Committees of the Society have been actively at work for 

 months past, and nothing has been left undone which could 

 add to the attractions of the exhibition. The work of these 

 committees is most manifest in the list of special premiums. 

 The Society presents one of the handsomest lists of specials 

 ever yet offered. Its amount has already swelled to upwards 

 of $1500. 



A new plan has been adopted by the Society in regard to 

 awarding premiums, which cannot fail to please exhibitors. 

 All premiums offered by the Society, also all special pre- 

 miums, will be on exhibition during the Fair, at the end of 

 which they will be distributed to the winners. Silver-ware 

 will be engraved, and diplomas filled out as fast as the de- 

 cisions of the judges are rendered. 



This system of awarding premiums will be sure to meet 

 the approbation of every fancier who has ever exhibited 

 fowls and taken premiums. 



Entries of fowls should be made as early as possible, in 

 order to prevent any confusion at a late date. 



Persons wishing to exhibit, and not being supplied with 

 the requisite blanks, can obtain them by sending to my ad- 

 dress, 



S. E. Clark, 



Corresponding Secretary. 

 Hartford, Conn. 



J0NQ.UE, BUFF, AND MEALY DEFINED. 



A jonque canary is what an uninitiated person would 

 call a yellow one, and a buff or mealy bird is what would 

 ordinarily be called a white one. But there are many shades 

 of color between the pale lemon-yellow of a common canary 

 and the rich orange of a jonque, and in the same way there 

 are as many shades of color between the almost colorless- 

 white bird and the deep buff. Yellow birds are bright; 

 buff are dull; yellow birds are of one uniform brilliant 

 color ; buff are, as it were, dusted over with meal, hence 

 the synonym mealy. The terms yellow and buff, jonque 

 and mealy, are used with a general application also (irre- 

 spective of the idea of yellow and buff considered as colors), 

 dividing all varieties of canaries into two classes. For ex- 

 ample : A green canary, if bright, is said to be a yellow- 

 green, and if of a. dull, opaque sort of color, is said to be a 

 buff-green. A bright cinnamon is called a yellow cinna- 

 mon, and a dull one a buff cinnamon, and so on through 

 every variety. A clear bird is one which shows no dark 

 marks — that is, has no dark feathers, and which also has 

 white under flue, the underneath portion of the feathers, 

 which in some apparently clear birds is quite black. There 

 is no probability of a canary show at the Crystal Palace in 

 the summer. The birds are not in condition for exhibition, 

 and are very busily engaged in rearing little olive plants for 

 future shows. — W. A. Blakston, in Journal of Horticulture. 



The baby hippopotamus in the London Zoological Gar- 

 den was given a male name, although it afterwards proved 

 to be a female. 



