File:Poultry of the world.jpg
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| Description | The poultry of the world. Portraits of all known valuable breeds of fowl. Thirty types of identified chickens (fifty-two individuals, male and female). Chromolithograph by L. Prang & Co., Boston
Transcription below by Papa Lima Whiskey 1. 2. Spanish. [The same fowl but white are called Leghorns.] 3. 4. Partridge Cochins. 5. 6. Black-Breasted Red Game. 7. 8. Grey Shangae. 9.10. Houdans. 11.12. Silver-spangled Hamburghs. 13. Malay Cock. 14.15. Dorking Fowls. 16.17. La Fleche. 18.19. Silver-laced Bantams. 20.21. Light Brahmas 22. Cinnamon Cochin Hen. 23. Game Bantam. 24. Indian Fowl. 25.26. Dark Brahmas 27. White Dorking. 28. Columbian Fowl. 29.30. Buff Cochin. 31.32. Silver Polish. 33. Guinea Fowl. 34. White Cochin. 35.36. Duck-winged Game. 37.38. Dominiques 39.40. Frizzled Fowls. 41.42. Golden-spangled Polish. 43.44. Sultan Fowls. 45.46. Creve-Coeurs. 47.48. White Bantams. 49.50. Coloured Dorkings 51.52. White-Crested Black Polish. Editorial notes: Square bracketed text on first line is present in the original. "Shangae" is a bastardisation of Shanghai, referring to Shanghai Chickens, which were later called Cochin-China Fowl and then simply Cochin [1] [2]. Why a distinction was made in this case is unclear to Papa Lima Whiskey. |
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| Author | L. Prang & Co. |
| Permission | See original Commons license details. |
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