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silver-girey, approximating to white ; the body is a light 

 downy white, sparsely spotted and pencilled with metallic 

 black in the tail and wing tips; the legs are feathered < to 

 the toes, and the form is unexceptionable for a large fowl ; 

 this variety having proved the biggest of all the ' Shang- 

 haes ' yet imported into this State. 



" The two cocks above delineated weighed between ten 

 and eleven pounds each at six months old ; the pullets drew 

 seven and a half to nine pounds each at seven to eight 

 months old ; the original imported pair of old ones now 

 weigh upwards of twenty-three pounds, together. In the 

 existing rage for weighty birds, this variety will naturally 

 satisfy the ambition of those who go for the ' biggest kind ' 

 of fowls ! 



' ' The group represents this variety with accuracy*, and 

 are, without doubt, for their kind, rare Specimens of the 

 genuine gallus giganteris of modern ornithologists. As 

 Her Majesty has long been known among the foremost 

 patrons of that agreeable branch of rural pursuits, poul- 

 try-raising, we do not doubt but that this splendid present 

 from Mr. Burnham will prove highly gratifying to her 

 tastes in this particular." 



Portraits of these fowls appeared in GleasorCs Pictorial 

 for January, 1853, and the editor spoke as follows of theln : 



"The Grey Shanghae Fowls lately presented to Her 

 Majesty Queen Victoria, of Great Britain, by George P. 



