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by a sailor to New York, obtained by a Connecticut 
breeder, the late Virgil Cornish of Hartford, bred and 
brought out by him. 
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DARK BRAHMAS. 
In an article which recently appeared in a poultry 
journal, the writer says: ‘* But few of the breeders are 
aware of the fact that this beautiful breed was perfected 
in the hands of our English breeders, out of a brood of 
chickens that were bred by mating a Black-red Shanghai 
cock with a Gray Shanghai (or, as then called, Chitegong) 
hen. But this is the fact. They were sent to England 
by an American breeder. 
‘There was no more heard from them, and the word 
Dark Brahmas, as a distinct breed of fowls, was not 
known in America till 1865, when the first importa- 
tion was made. The assertion that the Dark and Light 
Brahmas were bred from the same original stock with- 
out crossing is not true. The first imported ones came 
with far more single-combs than Pea-combs. The breeding 
of Pea Comb Brahmas to Partridge Cochins produced new 
blood; and later we began to get them of less Cochin 
shape and in every way improved. Such was the early 
history of the breed. 
«Tt is not a very flattering thought for home industry 
that we must send the crude material to a foreign 
country to be woven into a web of cloth, or perfected 
into a breed, and receive the same as a thoroughbred in 
only about a dozen years afterward. Be that as it may, 
our English brothers in this case have made for usa fine 
breed, and deserve much praise, and I for one would 
acknowledge the worth, and give the credit where it 
belongs. 
“*The earlier specimens were, more or less, bronzed 
