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does he not wear his abbreviated posterior appendage ! 

 Looking at the latter, we, and every one knowing in hen- 

 craftj will readily exclaim, ' Gerenau de Montbeillard ! you 

 must have been a most unmitigated muff to designate that 

 beautiful fowl, the g alius ecaudatus, or tailless rooster.' 

 For ourselves, our indignity teaches us to say, ' Mons. M. ! 

 your Essai sur Historic Nat. des Gallinacse Fran. torn, ii., 

 pp. 550 et 656, is a humbug ! ' We know that the univer- 

 sal world will sympathize in our sentiment on this point." 



Peter Snooks, Esq. (a correspondent of this journal), it 

 appears, had the honor to be the fortunate possessor of this 

 invaluable variety of fancy poultry, in its , unadulterated 

 purity of blood. He furnished from his own yard samples 

 of this rare and desirable stock for His Royal Highness 

 Prince Albert, and also sent samples to several other noted 

 potentates, whose taste was acknowledged to be unquestion- 

 able, including the King of Roratonga, the Rajah of Gabble- 

 squash, His Majesty of the Cannibal Islands, and the Mos- 

 quito King. Peter supplies the annexed description of the 

 superior properties of this variety of fowls : 



" The Bother^ em Pootrums are generally hatched from 

 eggs. The original pair were not ; they were sent from 

 lodia, by way of Nantucket, in a whale-ship. 



" They are a svagolaxly pictur-squee fowl from the very 

 shell. Imagine a orate-full of lean, plucked chickens, 

 taking leg-baiL for their liberty, and persevering around 



