THE WILD PHEASANT 195 



to the ideal country for game, and in 

 favourable seasons produce an amazing 

 number of wild -reared pheasants, the 

 regular and heavy crops of acorns in these 

 sunny counties providing abundance of 

 natural food through the winter months. 

 But although our eastern seaboard is 

 peculiarly favoured by nature, there are 

 many other places where the wild 

 pheasant is the main feature of the 

 shooting, and many more again where 

 his potential virtues are only unknown 

 through hand-rearing denying him any 

 field of activity. 



Outside the eastern counties thousands 

 of true wild -bred pheasants are killed 

 every year on such widely separated 

 estates as Beaulieu in Hampshire, 

 Gorhambury near St. Albans, Acton 

 Reynold in Shropshire, and Langholm in 

 Dumfriesshire. At his own Galloway 

 home, where the shooting has been let 

 for many years, some 5000 pheasants are 

 annually reared and shot ; but the writer 

 feels fairly confident that if the wild 



