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the Almonds of the present time, they have " only neat heads, down beaks, not 

 straight, with long legs ; " and he adds, " if the two engravings were faithful 

 likenesses of what the Ermines, or Almonds, were in 1764 or 1765, all I can 

 say, they were nothing to boast of." 



We have thus traced the gradual development of this most artificial breed, 

 from the first attempts of the fanciers of Moore's time, 1735, through the 

 successive stages, as recorded in the Treatise of 1765, and that of 1802, to 

 Mr. Eaton's work of 1851, and from thence down to the present time. 



