128 Fheasants. 



Of the noblemen and gentlemen who 

 Iiave PRIVATE MENAGERIES foF pheasants, 

 and who are large breeders, Lord Bray- 

 brook, at And ley End, Essex, and the 

 Earl of Jersey, at Osterley Park, Mid- 

 dlesex, are among the most eminent. 

 There are also pheasant breeders, who 

 make a trade of it, rearing two or three 

 hundred in a season. It w^as formerly 

 held impracticable to breed any consider- 

 able number of these birds, on the sup- 

 position that they could not be reared on 

 any other food than ants' eggs, of which a 

 sufficient plenty could never be depended 

 on ; but in all probability, those already re- 

 commended are very sufficient substitutes, 



