DOMESTIC POTJLTBT. 



country, and is fonnd to be one of the most nseftJ and hardiest 

 fowls we possess. It is a good layer, a good setter, and a 

 kind, attentive mother. The following directions, with regard 

 to the choice of this bird, are recommended. 



The Brahma should be a large and weighty fowl, of a free, 

 majestic bearing, aJike removed from the waddle of the Coohin- 

 China and the upright carriage of the Malay ; short in the leg 

 and neck, wide and full in the breast, and wide and deep in. 

 make. 



Legs, yellow and well feathered, but nol emothered in fea- 

 thers hke the most admired specimens of Coehina. 



Head, with a slight fulness over the eye, which gives a 

 certain breadth to the top of the head. We admire a full pearl 

 eye ; but it is far from common. 



Tail, short, but otherwise fuU in size and spread; that of 

 the cook opening into a fan. 



Comb, either a small single comb, or a pea-comb. 



The latest species introduced into England is the Sekai 

 Taook, or. Fowl of the SuUcm. They arrived here in 1854 ; and 

 Miss Watts, to whom they were consigned, gives their history 

 as follows : — 



" They were sent to me by a friend living at Constantinople, 

 in January, 1854. A year before, we had sent him some 

 Coohin-China fowls, -mih which he was very much pleased ; 

 and when his son soon after came to England, he said he 

 could send from Turkey some fowls with which I should be 

 pleased. Scraps of information about muffs, and divers 

 beauties and decorations, arrived before the fowls, and led to 

 expectations of something much prettier than the pretty ptar- 

 migan, in which I had always noticed a certain uncertainty in 

 tuft and comb. 



" In January, they arrived in a steamer chiefly manned by 

 Turks. The voyage had been long and rough ; and poor fowls 

 so rolled over and glued into one mass with filth were never 

 seen. Months afterwards, with the aid of one of the first 

 fanciers in the country, we spent an hour in trying to ascei»- 

 tain whether the feathers of the cock were white or striped, 

 and almost concluded that the last was the true state of the 

 case, although they had been described by oxir friend as helUs- 

 avrm galU hia/ncM, 



" I at once saw enough to make me very unwilling to be 

 entirely dependent for the breed on the one sad-looking gentle- 

 man with his tuft heavy with dirt — dirt for a mantle, and his 



