58 Aviary Pheasants. 



the exception of this mark, the whole plumage is 

 a quiet brown ; legs green. 



If we could manage to breed from acclimatised 

 specimens, we should, probably, in a few genera- 

 tions, get quieter birds. I never succeeded in 

 breeding these birds. I am informed the young 

 get in the way of the feet of their foster-mother 

 when a bantam is used, and she knocks them over 

 when scratching, their habit being, as I before 

 remarked, to keep close under the mother. 



