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WADE, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
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OUR ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Our illustrations this week, representing the setter dog 
‘“Grouse,” and pair of light Brahmas, ‘‘ Gladiator’ and 
‘‘Grand Duchess,’ are photo-lithographs from pen-and-ink 

sketches, made by Theophilus P. Chandler (architect to the | 
Zoological Society of this city), from photographs taken 
from life. We hope to be able to give one or more of these 
full-page engravings weekly. As this style of illustration 
is more or less an experiment, we hope to improve with 
every issue; all we ask is a generous support from fanciers, 
and we will make the Journal all they could wish for. 


ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR PRIZE. 
Mr. Wo. H.CuurcHoMaN, President of the American Poul- 
try Association, offers a special prize of one hundred dollars 
($100), for the best dark Brahma hen, regardless of age, to 
be exhibited at the Buffalo show, January 15th, 1874. For 
each entry a fee of $5 will be charged for the benefit of 
the Society. Each exhibitor, when making his entry, re- 
linquishes all claim over his fowl. No matter how many 
fowls are entered for this prize, the winner is to take them 
all, in addition to the $100 in gold. 

AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 
OFFICE OF AMERICAN POULTRY ASSOCIATION, 
39 N. Ninth Street, Philadelphia. 
A meeting of the above Association will be held in the 
city of Buffalo, New York, commencing on January 15th, at 
2 P.M., at which time the American Standard of Excellence 
will be thoroughly revised to suit the present views of Fan- 
ciers. All persons not members of the above Association are 
cordially invited to be present, to give their views and assist 
in the above work. Further information will be cheerfully 
given by addressing 
JosepH M. Wapz, 
Secretary, Philadelphia. 
WitiraM H. CHURCHMAN, 
President. 

FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

(For Fanciers’ Journal.) 
CONNECTICUT STATE POULTRY SOCIETY. 
Tux Fifth Annual Exhibition of this Society will be held 
at Hartford on the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th of December. 
From evidences already shown it will be the finest exhibi- 
tion ever held in Connecticut. 
Committees of the Society have been actively at work for 
months past, and nothing has been left undone which could 
add to the attractions of the exhibition. The work of these 
committees is most manifest in the list of special premiums. 
The Society presents one of the handsomest lists of specials 
ever yet offered. Its amount has already swelled to upwards 
of $1500. 
A new plan has been adopted by the Society in regard to 
awarding premiums, which cannot fail to please exhibitors. 
All premiums offered by the Society, also all special pre- 
miums, will be on exhibition during the Fair, at the end of 
which they will be distributed to the winners. Silver-ware 
will be engraved, and diplomas filled out as fast as the de- 
cisions of the judges are rendered. 
This system of awarding premiums will be sure to meet 
the approbation of every fancier who has ever exhibited 
fowls and taken premiums. 
Entries of fowls should be made as early as possible, in. 
order to prevent any confusion at a late date. 
Persons wishing to exhibit, and not being supplied with 
the requisite blanks, can obtain them by sending to my ad- 
dress, 
Sa He Gir Aunes 
Corresponding Secretary. 
HARTFORD, CONN. 


JONQUE, BUFF, AND MEALY DEFINED. 
A JONQUE canary is what an uninitiated person would 
calla yellow one, and a buff or mealy bird is what would 
ordinarily be called a white one. But there are many shades 
of color between the pale lemon-yellow of a common canary 
and the rich orange of a jonque, and in the same way there 
are as many shades of color between the almost colorless- 
white bird and the deep buff. Yellow birds are bright; 
buff are dull; yellow birds are of one uniform brilliant 
color; buff are, as it were, dusted over with meal, hence 
the synonym mealy. The terms yellow and buff, jonque 
and mealy, are used with a general application also (irre- 
spective of the idea of yellow and buff considered as colors), 
dividing all varieties of canaries into two classes. For ex- 
ample: A green canary, if bright, is said to be a yellow- 
green, and if of a dull, opaque sort of color, is said to be a 
buff-green. A bright cinnamon is called a yellow cinna- 
mon, and a dull one a buff cinnamon, and so on through 
every variety. A clear bird is one which shows no dark 
marks—that is, has no dark feathers, and which also has 
white under flue, the underneath portion of the feathers, 
which in some apparently clear birds is quite black. There 
is no probability of a canary show at the Crystal Palace in 
the summer. The birds are not in condition for exhibition, 
and are very busily engaged in rearing little olive plants for 
future shows.—W. A. BLaxston, in Journal of Horticulture. 

Tux baby hippopotamus in the London Zoological Gar- 
den was given a male name, although it afterwards proved 
to be a female. 
