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Title: The China fowl : Shanghae, Cochin, and "Brahma."
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Burnham, Geo. P. (George Pickering), 1814-1902
Subjects: Poultry breeds Cochin chicken Brahma chicken
Publisher: Melrose, Mass. : (s.n.) Boston : Press of Rand, Avery & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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his work. And to these and various publicly unnamed friends, I herebytender my acknowledgments for hints and suggestions that are embodied in my present book,which is now presented to the fanciers of America as a truthful and explicit account of whatthe author knows regarding the origin, history, characteristics, and breeding qualities of theChina Eowl, — Shanghae, Cochin, and Brahma, — from 1844 to 1874 inclusive; accompaniedwith corroborative authority for the statements I now make, gathered from the most reliabledata I have been able to reach or make myself acquainted with, during the thirty years Ihave enjoyed so large a practical experience with all the varieties of this now universallyfavorite race of Chinese fowls. GEO. P. BURNHAM. Melrose, Mass., September, 1874. CONTEXTS. PART I. PAGE. THE CHINA FOWL . ... 11 PART II. THE SHANGHAES . . . . 28 PART in. THE COCHINS 46 PART IY. THE BRAHMAS 99 63 PART V. SELECTION AND MATING . . . . . ... .115 PART VI. BURNHAAI vs. WRIGHT 137
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THE CHINA FOWL: SHANGHAE, COCHIN, BRAHMA. Under this general appellation, I include all the various-colored domesticfowls now popularly known in England and America as et Shanghaes Cochins or Brahmas ; to wit, the white, gray, lemon, buff, cinnamon,brown, partridge, grouse, and black, —feathered-legged or smooth-shanked.And in this volume I shall show that all these varieties, under whatevername during the last thirty years they may have been denominated, or atthe present time are called, have one common origin; that no importation ofany one of said varieties or strains have reached this country or Great Britainfrom any place save Chinese ports; and especially that none of these finefowls have been brought, or can be authoritatively shown ever to have come,into the two countries mentioned, either from the province of Cochin China,originally, or more especially from India, in a single instance. This averment at the outset, I make understandingly. Premising that Ishall not unduly urge

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