CONTENTS 



(Third Edition) 



The articles and illustrations in this book appear in the following order: 



PAGE 



Pheasants for Zoological Parks 14 



General History and Management of Pheasants ... 15 



The care and breeding of matured Pheasants 16 



A few hints on good health 17 



Method of raising Pheasants successfully 18 



Hybrid Pheasants 18 



Barrel nest and practical Pheasant coop 19 



Pheasant breeding yields an enormous profit .... 21 



A fortune to an industrious breeder 21 



Recipe for cold and roup 23 



An ideal Pheasantry and practical gate 24 



Colored plates of Pheasants 25 



Ideal poultry house, scratching pen and cat 



proof yard 27 



Amherst Pheasants displaying their striking plum- 

 age during breeding season 27 



Cat proof yard and fence 28 



A hawk protector 29 



How to ship Pheasants 30 



A telegram from California in May 31 



Pheasant market 31 



To keep Pheasants from straying 31 



Trapping Pheasants 31 



Crows the worst enemies of Game Birds 31 



For Sportsmen nothing exceeds Pheasant shooting 32 



A morning Pheasant shoot 32 



Pheasants as insect destroyers 32 



A wonderful industry 33 



How to attract birds 33 



Australian Crown Pigeons, Scotch Grouse, Scaled 



and Siberian Partridges and Prairie Chickens. . . 36 



Notes from another Pheasant fancier 37 



Pheasants the friend of the farmer 38 



A practical rat trap 39 



Recipes for something good to eat besides Pheas- 

 ants 41 



Colored plates of Pheasants 43 



Stuffed Pheasants for mounting purposes 46 



Pheasant breeding in America by J. Alden Loring.. 47 



Description of Pheasants 54 



Great Argus Pheasant 54 



Impeyan Pheasant 54 



Peacock Pheasant 55 



Trapogan Pheasant 55 



Versicolor Pheasant 56 



Fireback Pheasant 56 



Chinese or Ring Neck Pheasant 57 



Silver Pheasant 57 



Golden Pheasant 58 



Elliott Pheasant 58 



Manchurian Pheasant 59 



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Lady Amherst Pheasant 59 



Swinhoe Pheasant 60 



Soemmering Pheasant 60 



Full-page colored plates of Pheasants 62 



Reeves Pheasant 63 



Japanese Pheasant 64 



Black Neck Pheasant 65 



Common Pheasant 65 



Reeves Pheasant 66 



Siamese Pheasant 66 



Melanotus Pheasant 66 



Mongolian Pheasant 66 



Prince of Wales Pheasant 67 



Hagenbeck Pheasant 67 



All about tails 67 



Testimonials 68 



Messina and California Quail 69 



Mandarin and Wood Duck breeding 70 



Swimming pool for Mandarin and Wood Ducks ... 70 



Squirrels 71 



Peacock Breeding 72 



Auerhahn or Capercaikies 72 



Vultrine Guinea Fowl 73 



Jungle Fowl 73 



A practical poultry house with scratching shed ... 74 



The secret to make hens lay in winter 74 



A little severe talk on crows 75 



Japanese Long Tail Phoenix Fowl 75 



Artificial nests for singing birds 76 



How to trap sparrows 76 



Pheasant capons 77 



Hungarian Partridges 78 



Colored plate of Belgian Homers 80 



European Roe Deer 81 



Rabbit breeding 82 



A Quail and Partridge trap 83 



Angora Goats 83 



Bohemian Quail, Swiss Chamois 84 



Ostrich Breeding 85 



Swan Breeding 87 



Indian R unner Ducks 88 



Deer Farming 89 



Japanese Ring Doves, Cuban and Wonga Doves. . . 90 



Questions and answers, A trap for game 91 



Wild Turkeys 92 



A long, wearisome letter 92 



Egyptian Geese, Canadian Geese, 



Most practical Pigeon nests 93 



New discovery for the destruction of rats and 



mice 94 



