208 PHEASANTS 



planning and planting of the woods made 

 a nice excuse for many happy days in the 

 open air. A ten-pound note went far to 

 meet expenses once the rabbits had been 

 eradicated. 



A well-marked valley separates the 

 S.E. corner of the wood from the nearest 

 rise in the ground, where a wood, very 

 similar in outline, will go far in the 

 future to make a fine rise of pheasants 

 possible independent of the wind, for 

 either wood may be used as the flushing 

 cover, and the other driven blank into it, 

 according to the quarter of the wind on 

 the day of the shoot. 



Lying among fields under the plough 

 — and cultivation is almost essential to 

 the pheasant, in a locality where ex- 

 perience, the only safe guide, has shown 

 that wild birds will thrive, it will be an 

 interesting experiment to note how the 

 provision of this wood — especially designed 

 to meet their requirements — will in future 

 years affect the number of birds to be 

 found on the ground in late winter. 



