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On the Rearing and Management of Poultry. 



Cochin -China Fowls J 



* " The above fowls were presented to our most gracious Queen, and afterwards 

 bred at Windsor Great Park ; and, in order to promote their extension, given by her 

 Majesty to such persons as were supposed likely to appreciate them. I have been 

 fortunate in procuring some fine specimens of them soon after their arrival. 

 Three of the Queen's birds were exhibited at the Royal Dublin Society's show, for 

 1846, which elicited the gold medal ; but they were evidently crossed by the Dorking, 

 as evinced by their general appearance, and being partially furnished with the 

 additional toe — a circumstance admitted by Mr. Walter, the Queens poultry-keeper. 

 This lot was subsequently presented to the then Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord 

 Heytesbury. At the same show I exhibited the first Cochin-China fowl, of pure 

 breeding, in this country. The annexed figures are taken from them, by Mr. 

 William Oldham." — Nolan, Domestic Fowl and Game Birds, p. 8. 



