SULTANS, 



kmg clogged tail hanging round on one side. I wrote directly 

 for another importation, especially for a cock, and to ask the 

 name they had at home In answer to the first request, I 

 found that good fowls of the kind are difficult to get there ; 

 our friends have ever since been trying to get us two or three 

 more, but cannot succeed either in Constantinople, or other 

 parts of Turkey : the first he can meet with will be sent. 

 With regard to the name, he told us they are called ' Sarai- 

 Taook.' Serai, as is known by every reader of eastern lore, is 

 the name of the Sultan's palace ; Taook is Turkish for fowl ; 

 the simplest translation of this is, ' Sultan's fowls,' or ' fowls 

 of the Sultan;' a name which has the double advantage of 

 being the nearest to be found to that by which they have been 

 known in their own country, and of designating the country 

 from which they came. 



" Time very soon restored the fowls to perfect health and 

 partial cleanliness ; but it was not until after the moulting- 

 season that they showed themselves as the ielUssirm galU 

 hiancM described by our Constantinople friend. 



" They rather resemble our white Folands, but with more 

 famishing, and shorter legs, which are vulture-hocked, and 

 feathered to the toes. 



" In general habits, they are brisk, and happy -tempered ; 

 but not kept in so easily as Cochin-Chinas. They are very 

 good layers; their eggs are large and white: they are non- 

 sitters, and small eaters. A grass run with them will remain 

 green long after the crop would have been cleared by either 

 Brahmas or Cochins; and, with scattered food, they soon 

 become satisfied, and walk away." 



Sm/tASB. 



