Excerpt from The Leghorn of the Past and Present After receiving the above account from Mr. Starr, we took the pains to see the stock from which he obtained his rose-combed cock and assure ourselves that the birds were genuine, and that no cross-bred bird had been sold Mr. Starr, as a full-blooded Leghorn. The result of our inves tigations was perfectly convincing: not only were there no mongrels kept by the owners of the bird, but there were no white fowls kept in the neighboring yards. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.