PART THIRD. 



Pea-Comb Barred Plymouth Rocks. 



The commendable spirit of progress and improvement that has 

 ever characterized the American fancier in his laudable work of beau- 

 tifying the plumage, combining royalty with gorgeous coloring in 

 feathers, and tasteful and comely forms with general utility in our 

 domestic breeds, and the regularity with which they reproduce their 

 like, year after year, in our runs and upon our estates, in many 

 thousand instances of their kind, with scarcely a variation or shadow 

 of changing, is equaled only by the grand conceptions of his fertile 



