2 PHEASANTS 



whom they are better acquainted with by 

 field and covert than in museum and 

 cabinet. Still without entering into the 

 niceties of specific and subspecific rank — 

 pitfalls for the unwary which abound 

 when dealing with the family of pheasants 

 — it would not seem amiss — in a work 

 professedly beneath the notice of the 

 scientist — to marshal the various kinds 

 of pheasants which fall to be considered 

 in their relations to sport, in a more or 

 less orderly array, which may not lack 

 interest for those who may only know 

 them as charges committed to their care 

 on the rearing-field. 



If we adopt the classification of the 

 learned Dr. Gadow, we may come to our 

 pheasants as follows : — 



Division— NEORNITHES CARINATAE 



(comprising all existing forms of bird life except 

 the Ratites or flightless birds). 



Order GALLIFORMES 



(Members of this order are distinguished by a 

 globular crop, muscular gizzard, and short round 



