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Japanese Long-Tailed Fowls. 
and the Philippines. It is also common in Ceylon (where it is said, however, to have been brought 
from Batavia), and we have heard of it in the West Indies, to which it is scarcely likely to have 
been exported. In some old descriptions it is evidently confounded with the Silky fowl, with 
which it has, however, no connection whatever. 
In breeding these fowls perfection and neatness in the frizzled plumage must of couise be the 
chief point in choosing stock birds, colour being preserved or modified in the ordinary way. 
JAPANESE LONG-TAILED FOWLS. — About the year 1878 there appeared in Germany, 
and a year or two later in England, fovds imported from Japan, whose principal peculiarity 
YOKOHAMA FOWLS. 
consisted in an immense length of tail and hackle feathers. Some of these were exhibited as 
Yokohamas ; others, said to be superior in these points, were called “Phoenix” fovds. Herr Hugo 
du Roi, in Brunswick, Herr Wichmann, in Hamburgh, and the Baroness Ulm-Erbach, appear to 
have received distinct importations, offshoots from which came into the possession of M. Pierre 
de Roo, in Paris, and of Messrs. Fowler and others, in England ; but careful comparison of the 
representations published, and of numerous photographs and drawings which reached us direct 
from the Continent, failed to show any real distinction, beyond greater or less development 
of the peculiar plumage. The tails of these specimens averaged about a yard in length, and the 
general appearance was not only that of a Game fowl, but all the colours were Game colours — 
Whites, Piles, Duckwings, and later a few Black-reels. The long plumage was, however, unique, 
and a fair idea of it may be gathered from the illustration. 
Correspondence in the poultry journals brought out the fact that such birds had been 
occasionally exhibited as Japanese Game so far back as about 1872. But it further appeared that 
