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comparison lay with the flesh of the pheasant ; these bird* 

 taken young into keeping, become as familiar as chiekens ; 

 and when designed for breeding, they are put together in a 

 yard, five hens to a cock ; their nest in its natural state ; 

 the female refusing to hatch the eggs, a common hen sup- 

 plies her place, and performs the task with perseverance 

 and success ; the young difficult to be reared ; with what 

 food the young must be supplied ; particularities concerning 

 the rearing of the young ones ; the method of Longolius to 

 increase the breed and make it more valuable ; the pheasant 

 will at last be brought to couple with a common hen ; 

 many varieties of pheasants ; of all others, the golden phea- 

 sant of China the most beautiful, iv. 147, &c. 



Pholades, the file-fish, places where these animals are found ; 

 their power of penetrating ; the pillars of the temple of Se- 

 rapis at Puteoli were penetrated by them ; they pierce the 

 hardest bodies with their tongue ; their motion slow beyond 

 conception ; have no other food but the sea-water ; are ac- 

 counted a great delicacy, v. 250. 



Pie, in the class of the pie kind, few, except the pigeon, are 

 of use to man ; yet, to each other, no class of birds so inge- 

 nious, active, and well fitted for society ; they live in pairs, 

 and their attachments are confined to each other ; they 

 build nests in trees or bushes; the male shares in the labour 

 of building, and relieves his mate in the duties of incuba- 

 tion ; and the young once excluded, both are equally active 

 in making them ample provision ; general laws prevail, and 

 a republican form of government is established among 

 them ; they watch for the general safety of every bird of 

 the grove ; they are remarkable for instinct and capacity 

 for instruction ; instances of it ; fetching and carrying un- 

 taught, all this tribe are but too fond of; their passion for 

 shining things, and such toys as most of us put a value up- 

 on ; rings found in the nest of a tame magpie ; the few gene- 

 ral characters in which they all agree, iv. 174. 



Pie (sea), breeds in this country, and resides in its marshy 

 parts, iv. 345. 



Pigeons bred to a feather, means a display of art by those 

 persons who employ themselves in rearing pigeons of differ- 

 ent colours, ii. 102. Those that live in a wild state by no 

 means so fruitful as those in our pigeon-houses nearer 

 home ; the tame pigeon, and all its beautiful varieties, owe 

 their origin to one species, the stock-dove ; colours of the 

 pigeon in a state of nature; the dove-house pigeon breeds 

 every month ; the hatching of its eggs ; a full explanation 

 of the method of feeding their young from the crop ; various 

 names of tame pigeons ; attempts made to render domestic 

 the ring-dove, but hitherto fruitless ; the turtle-dove a bird 

 of passage; a pair put in a cage, and one dying, the other 



