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VERTEBRATA, 
THE IMPEYAN PHBASAHT. 
HASTINGS' TRAGOPAN, OR HORNED PHEASANT. 
earliest historical records — ^t.he curious paintings of the Egyptians — show that this and most of our 
ordinary domestic animals were as completely domesticated at that early period as in our own day. 
rmj KtTLM COCK. 
The original stock of the Domestic Fowl has been sought among the various species of Wild 
