274 PHEASANTS 



Not all may have the inclination or 

 the capability to make of their covert- 

 shoots the finished performance therein 

 described, but the underlying principles 

 can at least be followed with little trouble 

 and the happiest results. 



NOTES ON COVERT SHOOTING AT 

 BARGANY 



The following are only a rambling disjointed 

 set of notes on our pheasants here, and do not 

 pretend to be a general treatise on pheasant 

 shooting. 



Rearing. — Any details as to the rearing of our 

 birds would be superfluous, as any one who is 

 interested in the subject can learn nothing from 

 us on the matter. We have no regular pheasantry 

 here, as we never rear on a large enough scale to 

 require one. Some hens are caught up and penned 

 every autumn, also a few cocks which are ex- 

 changed with other places. Personally I think 

 it would probably be better to have no cocks 

 penned at all, letting loose even the strangers 

 acquired by exchange, and trusting to the wild 

 cocks visiting the hens, a plan not uncommonly 

 adopted in other places, and with satisfactory 

 results. 



For my own part I dislike the white -neck 

 ringed bird, and try to keep to the black necks 

 so far as can be managed. 



