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weight of a full-grown bird is from ten to twelve pounds, 
while a few have weighed more. The hen agrees in general 
character with that of her liege lord, but is two or three pounds 
lighter. 
The legs of both sexes should be yellow, though we have 
seen some very fine white birds with a greenish-blue leg, and 
superior black ones with dark legs. 
The principal sub-varieties of the Shanghai family are the 
White, the Buff, the Cinnamon, the Partridge-colored, the Gray, 
or Brahmapootra of a few writers, the Dominique, and the 
Black. 
About ten years ago there raged among our fowl fanciers a 
most alarming Shanghai fever. It had its “run,” and its vic- 
tims mostly survived. We presume they will never have a 
second attack. 
We can not advise our readers to breed Shanghai fowls, and 
regret being obliged to mention them at all. 
8. The Cochin China Fowi, ete-——A missionary in China 
says: “There is no difference at all between the Shanghais 
and Cochin Chinas. In reality they ald are Shanghais. Coch- 
in Chinese fowls are a small, inferior kind, not equal to the 
natives of the United States, and it is not believed that any 
have ever been taken to Americu;” and the editors of the 
“ Poultry Book,” lately published in London, quote from a let- 
ter they received from Mr. Robert Fortune, who has passed 
many years in various parts of China, as follows: “I firmly 
believe that what are called ‘Cochin Chinas’ and ‘ Shanghais’ 
are one and the same. 
Whether this testimony should be considered conclusive or 
not we leave the reader to judge, and believing none of the un- 
couth, awkward,.and coarse-grained Asiatic fowls desirable, we 
herewith dismiss them. 
9. The Bantam Fowl,—The Bantam is the smallest specimen 
of fowl, and may with propriety be called the Tom Thumb of 
the gallinaceous tribe, and stands comparatively, in size, to the 
Malay and Cochin fowl as that of the noble and stately Dur. 
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