LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Silver Pheasants (Male and Female) 



Frontispiece 



Keepers searching for Pheasant Nests in the Woods of the 

 North Yorkshire Hills 



Black-necked Pheasant (Male) 



Sitting Hen Pheasant .... 



Pure Mongolian (Male) Pheasant 



Prince of Wales Pheasant (Male and Female) 



Assumption of Male Plumage by the Female Sex 



Hen Pheasant with Nest amongst Heather 



Hen Pheasant Sitting on Nest surrounded by Grass and 

 Nettles ..... 



Hen Pheasant in which the Maternal Duties were so 

 strongly developed that she regularly submitted to be 



STROKED without LEAVING THE NeST . 



Concealment of Sitting Hen Pheasant . 



Clutch of Pheasant Eggs found amongst the 



Feeding Trough .... 



Patent Feeding Trough 



Home-made Willow Trap for the Capture of 

 the Pens .... 



Egg-testing Lamp .... 



Sitting on Pheasant Eggs . 



Portable Pheasant and Poultry House 



Barn-door Fowls in Sitting boxes 



Young Pheasants Feeding at the Coops 



An Ideal Site for a Rearing-field, depicting 

 MENT of the Coops 



Feeding Young Pheasants at the Edge of the Covert 



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