PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



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the impracticability of the preservation of game, it is 

 much more unequally distributed. In our English 

 preserves, the two European birds of different 



plumage, the one strikingly marked in the neck with 

 a white ring, the other without it, have bred toge- 

 ther; and thus we constantly observe specimens of 

 either, or with the mark modified. Of all birds this 



