CORNISH, a breed of poultry apparently developed in Eng land about the middle of the i9th century and first imported into America in 1887. It gained considerable popularity partly because of its excellent fleshing properties and its yellow skin. It has close feathering and a compact, heavily-meated body, the breast being very deep and broad. The cornish lays a brown-shelled egg and is a broody fowl. It has a pea comb. In spite of its excellent flesh ing properties, the cornish has never demonstrated that it is a very great layer. There are three varieties, the dark, the white, and the white-laced red, the latter being a novelty. The plumage of the dark cornish is largely lustrous greenish-black and dark red inter mixed. The under-colour is dark slate, and the beak, shanks and toes, yellow. The plumage of the white cornish is pure white; the beak, shanks, and toes are yellow, which is also the colour of the skin. The white-laced red cornish has been developed in America quite recently. The plumage is, for the most part, red with a nar row lacing of white on each feather. In both sexes the neck feathers are rich red which, in the male, are laced with silvery white, and in the female, with white. The tail feathers in the male are white, and in the female they are red except that the end of each feather is laced with white. The under colour in both sexes is white, and the skin, beaks, shanks and toes are yellow. (See