. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ndignation thatsomething really done had received no recogni-tion. Supposing that to be the case, the truthof the matter does not appear difficult to dis-cover, if once we disregard the maze of Burn-hams own contradictory statements ; and thesecret lies apparently in the birds previouslyknown in America as Chittagongs. These fowls Burnham alwa-s admitted thathe had from Dr. Kerr, of Philadelphia, as Dr.Bennett had his ; but he always added the state-ment, carelessly adopted by Mr. Tegetmeier,t
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. Wright's book of poultry, revised and edited in accordance with the latest poultry club standards. ndignation thatsomething really done had received no recogni-tion. Supposing that to be the case, the truthof the matter does not appear difficult to dis-cover, if once we disregard the maze of Burn-hams own contradictory statements ; and thesecret lies apparently in the birds previouslyknown in America as Chittagongs. These fowls Burnham alwa-s admitted thathe had from Dr. Kerr, of Philadelphia, as Dr.Bennett had his ; but he always added the state-ment, carelessly adopted by Mr. Tegetmeier, that those birds also came from Shanghae. Onthis point, however. Dr. Kerr himself is theproper authority, and he states that thej- camefrom Calcutta; in fact, the Indian name aloneis sufficient proof of their Indian origin. Nowit is remarkable that even recently, direct Indiantestimony has been given to fowls resemblingthe earlier Dark Brahmas being still found inthe Chittagong district. The Broad Arrow, aCivil Service journal, reviewing in March, 1874, our monograph on the Brahma Fowl, attributed. OLD STI^AINS OF BRAHMAS. 2f>3 the Darks to the big fowls found around the portof Chittagong ; and an old Indian officer nowdead, wrote us in 1872, The fowl you makeso much fuss about is the Grey Chittagong, ofwhich I have seen hundreds in India, and wehave seen other letters in MS. and print makingsimilar statements. If in this light we turn over Burnhams manycontradictory assertions with a discriminatingeclecticism, we find one that seems significant.He says, for instance {China Fowl, p. 97), that the Dark and the Light varieties both cameout of the Philadelphia greys, and the lightercoloured grey birds I subsequently obtained.There seems truth here as to the Darks, becauseif it were made up, he would be more likely tosay that it was by a darker cross he got them.We have seen that Dr. Bennett had shown greybirds cross-bred from Chittagongs at Fitchburg, and that Burnham had done the