CHAPTER XVIII. 



CROSSES, AND IMPORTING SPECIMENS. 



Crossing Amherst Cock and Gold Hen: Value of; 

 Plumage of- Other Crosses: Gold and Common; 

 Silver and Common Fowl ; Common and Domestic 

 Fowl ; Reeves' and Common Table of Results of 

 Various Crosses Importation of Foreign Pheasants : 

 Mr. Jamractis Letter on Results of. 



>Y mating an Amherst cock with a Gold hen 

 you will obtain a bird of which the male may 

 well be said to far surpass either parent in 

 beauty. A few years ago, a male of this cross sold 

 at Antwerp for 37. The following will briefly 

 describe a male in full plumage : Crest orange ; iris 

 white ; face pale straw-colour ; tippet black and white, 

 like the Amherst; breast red, with buff feathers at 

 the point of shoulder; tail feathers having enlarged 

 black spots, rest of feathers like the Gold; saddle 

 yellow, with red-orange at base of tail. The hen is 

 very similar to a pure Amherst, but has less chestnut 

 on the head. 



Subjoined are a few remarks on other crosses of 

 pheasants. Of the cross between the Gold and the 



