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another, but I prefer my stock-bird of about 

 five or six pounds ■weight. Choose a bird of 

 bold, defiant carriage, of good colour, head long 

 and slender, mandible strong, curved, and well set 

 in the head; very stout at the base, full ireast, 

 round body, broad between the shoulders, and 

 tapering to the tail. In fact, he must resemble the 

 hen in all his points, except in colour. Having 

 given the exhibition and breeding points of one 

 class of Game fowl, the same qualifications are 

 necessary in all other varieties, however nume- 

 rous they may be ; names and colours we leave 

 to the taste of the amateur himself To give 

 a separate description of each of the difierent 

 coloured varieties would be more than your space 

 will permit, for their name is legion; but I 

 may mention a few of those we are best ac- 

 quainted with, viz., Duckwings, Brown-breasted 

 Eeds, Brassy Wings, White, Black, Piles, Greys, 

 Birchin Greys, Weedon Eeds, &c., &c., all 

 of which have their friends and admirers, and 

 must all possess the different points we have 

 enumerated, whether they are intended for the 

 purposes of amusement and exhibition, or the pit. 



