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The Illustrated Book of Poultry. 
proof of this is very simple. By the courtesy of Mr. C. W. Gedney, author of a portion of “ The 
Langshan Fowl,” we are enabled to reproduce the illustration of Langshans prepared for that 
work, published in 1877, and republished again subsequently.* That pamphlet states that “the 
accompanying illustration conveys a very accurate idea of the style and carriage,” and from memory 
we can vouch for its accuracy. The reader has only to see in it what the Langshan then was, and 
The First or Original Langshans. 
Reproduced, by permission of Mr. C. W. Gedney , from the Frontispiece to “ The Langshan Fowl," published 1877. 
what it now is, to see the vast difference which exists between the two 
has only to look upon this picture of the originals, to see at once 
; and the breeder of Cochins 
that these birds were of the 
• The oermission deserves acknowledgment all the more because Mr. Gedney himself considered us as an 
nevertheless places the illustration at our disposal with the courtesy o a generous oppa c 
1 adversary,” and 
