Occasionally to watch their wonderful motions more closely and have speech with them, I followed when they raced over the sands or flew about over the slippery rocks, and felt like a cochin-china fowl, or muscovy duck, or dodo, trying to keep pace with a humming-bird.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
It has made them attentive to fussy details, faithful to fantastic conceptions of honour, partial to pensioned ease and married life if one escapes the fevers of cochin China and Algeria.
"Command"
William McFee
Eggs large and small, white-shelled and brown, cochin-Chinas and Brahmapooters.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage