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were the animals most likely to show sport. 

 In the changed condition of things, when 

 cotton fields in interminable continuity are 

 the order of the day, at least in the provinces 

 of Anwhei, Chekiang and Kiangsu, and the 

 sound of the foreigner's heavy footfall is 

 almost telephonically communicated to the 

 listening and expectant pheasant which, 

 forewarned, has ample time to make itself 

 scarce, the question arises, and is worth 

 some consideration, whether better results 

 would not be obtained if the fields were 

 walked through by sandal-shod beaters, the 

 guns well ahead flanking them, and the 

 coverts worked by a persevering spaniel 

 and for that matter the larger the animal, 

 the better. 



The Chinese ringless pheasant, whose 

 habits doubtless are very similar to those of 

 the ringnecked variety, is chiefly found in 

 that mountainous region which has its north- 

 eastern extremity in southern Shensi, and 

 its most southerly in western Yunnan. 



The Golden pheasant affects that portion 

 of China from Ichang on the Yangtze to the 

 west of Chungking. It is also said to have 

 been met with as far east as Shasi. Certain 



