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STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. 



The daily life of the pheasant is very much like that of the grouse. He 

 loves the thick plantation or the tangled wood, and during the summer and 

 autumn has the habit of sleeping on the ground, though in the winter a tree 

 is chosen on which to roost. 



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CHINESE PHEASANTS. 



Early in the morning he visits the open fields, and searches for the tender 

 shoots of the grass and of many of the meadow plants, and will pick up 

 worms £nd insects. Later in the season, acorns, and beech nuts, and wild 

 berries form articles of diet. But during a severe winter the birds require 

 to be fed, or they would suffer from hunger. Then they become very tame^ 

 and come when they are called. 



