HVIARY PHEASANTS, 



CHAPTER I. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Adaptability of Pheasants for Breeding and Rearing 

 in Towns The Best Varieties Gold Pheasants : 

 Beauty of ; Keeping in the Open No great Expense 

 needed Plan of Work. 



jROBABLY there is no greater attraction in 

 the grounds of a country house than a good 

 g|^IQ collection of foreign pheasants ; but it is not 

 everyone who has a country house, and one of the 

 chief merits of these birds is that, although they add 

 greatly to the beauties of our gardens, still they may 

 be kept by town residents, and even in the very 

 limited space of most suburban houses some of our 

 most beautiful varieties may be bred and reared. 

 Take, for instance, the Gold and the Lady Amherst, 

 two of the best. A small, lean-to shed, with a little 



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