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on wing with startling rapidity, and will 

 then fly as high and twice as quick as 

 any other pheasant.^ 



Thus may the Reeves, who, when once 

 firmly established, should require little or 

 no human assistance to maintain his race, 

 add a new feature of interest to woods 

 now only tenanted by the occasional 

 woodcock and the roe-deer. 



Reeves pheasants were at one time 

 reared in some numbers at Guisachan, 

 in the wilds of Glen Affric, then the 

 property of Lord Tweedmouth, and Mr. 

 Millais has given — both with pen and 

 pencil — charming records of the sport he 

 enjoyed. Since this estate changed hands 

 eight years ago, there has been but little 

 rearing of pheasants. A few Reeves, 

 however, are still reared every year, and 

 are reported to be quite as easy to bring 



* The writer can well remember a certain Reeves in 

 the Island of Bute. He ran at great speed from the 

 covert towards the gun ; when within thirty yards the 

 cock took wing, and was a high bird travelling apace, 

 when shot straight overhead. He proved to be nearly 

 a foot longer than his slayer, who is somewhat below the 

 normal stature of man. 



