● Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected. ● Inconsistencies in hyphenation retained. ● Description of illustrations without captions has been added. ● Italics are indicated by underscores surrounding the _italic text_. ● Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS. Long before what we now call “fancy fowls” were known or recognized (in fact, long before the memory of any person now living), Hamburgs were kept and bred to feather among the peasants of Yorkshire and Lancashire in England, and by them exhibited at the small town and county fairs in their neighborhood. Of course they were then known under different names, the Blacks being called “Black Pheasant Fowls” and the Spangle…
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