354 
INDEX, 
PAGE 
Creels or Creoles .... 
147 
Crevecoeui's ..... 
. 200, 
, 217 
Crested duck .... 
311 
Crook, Mr., on Spanisli fowls . 
107 
Crop-bound fowls .... 
323 
Custard for chickens 
88 
D. 
Darwin, Mr. C., on the origin of the domestic duck 
296 
,, on the origin of the domestic fowl 
256 
Diandioea in fowls .... 
324 
Diseases of poultry .... 
322 
Dorkings, coloured .... 
82 
,, cuckoo .... 
97 
,, silver-grey 
83 
,, white .... 
99 
Douglas, Mr. J., on breeding Dorkings 
86 
,, ,, Game fowls 
125 
Dubbing Game fowls 
139 
Ducks ...... 
297 
Duckwing Game .... 
127 
Dumpies ...... 
233 
E. 
Early broods, to obtain 
■ 19 
Earth as a deodorizer in poultry houses 
9 
East Indian ducks .... 
306 
Egg organs, diseases of . . . 
330 
Eggs, best mode of packing for travelling 
31 
,, modes of preserving . 
30 
,, sex of, not to be distinguished 
111 
,, sterile, to distinguish 
21 
, , structure and development of 
25 
Elgar, Mr., on cuckoo Dorkings . 
97 
Emu fowls ..... 
225 
Every-day layers .... 
147 
F. 
Fattening-coops .... 
90 
,, fowls, methods followed in England . 90 
,, methods followed in France 
. 211,215 
Feather-leggfed Bantams . 
. 249 
Feeding, general pi’inciples of . 
. 11 
Flack, Capt., on the wild turkey 
. 265 
Fountain, best mode of constructing . 
. 15 
French fowls ..... 
. 193 
Frizzled fowls ..... 
. 226 
G. 
Gallus ^neus ..... 
. 257 
,, Bankiva . . ... 
. 257 
,, ferrugineus .... 
. 257 
, , furcatus .... 
. 257 
,, giganteus .... 
73, 236, 257 
,, Lanatus .... 
. 223 
,, Morio ..... 
. 223 
,, Sonneratii .... 
. 257 
,, Stanley! .... 
. 257 
,, Temminckii .... 
. 257 
PAGE 
Game Bantams ..... 
248 
,, fowls ...... 
123 
,, fowls, many-spurred 
135 
Gapes ....... 
326 
Geese ....... 
312 
,, Chinese . ... . 
316 
,, Grey-lag 
. 
314 
,, Sebastopol . . . . . 
316 
Geyelin, Mr., exposure of the de Sora Noax 
. 
196 
,, on French poultry breeding . 
191 
, 211 
Ghondooks ...... 
191 
Gould, Mr., on the Mexican turkey . 
289 
Gout in fowls ...... 
333 
Gi’ain, value of different kinds as food 
12 
Grigs, described by Willoughby . 
240 
Guelders ...... 
219 
Guinea-fowls ...... 
288 
H. 
Hamburghs, black ..... 
158 
,, pencilled .... 
146 
,, spangled .... 
154 
Hen-cocks ...... 
131 
Hen-feathered Pheasant fowl 
156 
Henny Game fowls ..... 
131 
Hewitt, Mr. E,, on black and white Bantams 
247 
,, Buenos Ayres ducksi 
. 
307 
, , characteristics of buff Cochins . 
41, 46 
,, characteristics of Dorkings. 
. 
84 
,, on Dumpies .... 
. 
233 
, , on courage of Game fowds . 
136 
,, on Frizzled fowls 
229 
, , on hybrids between jpheasants and fowls 
164 
, , on Malays .... 
. 
75 
,, on Pea-fowls .... 
285 
,, on pencilled Hamburghs . 
150 
,, on Polish fowls 
177, 
, 183 
,, on the Eouen duck . 
304 
,, on rumj)]ess fowls 
231 
, , on characteristics of Sebright Bantams 
241 
,, on Silk fowls .... 
. 
222 
, , on Spanish fowls 
104, 106 
,, on the capture of wild ducks 
301 
,, on white geese 
315, 
320 
Hooked-billed duck 
t 
310 
Horner, Dr. F.R., on Polish fowls 
172, 
184 
,, on the origin of the Sebright 
Bantam 
241 
,, on the sounds in incubated 
eggs 
27 
Hornby, Admiral, on Spanish fowls . 
no. 
113 
Horse-flesb as food for fowls 
194 
Houdans ...... 
203, 
217 
Hybrids between pheasants and fowls 
164 
I. 
In-and-in breeding ..... 
79 
Incubators ...... 
22 
India, domestic fowls of . 
236 
Indian Game fowls . . 
73 
Inflammation of stomach in fowls 
324 
