CHAPTER XXI. 



A WALK ROUND MY AVIARIES. 

 Calls of the Different Varieties Gaudy Plumage 

 and Harsh Voices The Amherst and his Tail 

 Elliots : Pugnacity of; Handsome Appearance of; 

 Love-making of Versicolors : Pride of; Varied 

 Dispositions of- Golds: Hardiness of; Restless 

 Motion of A Pugnacious Reeves' Cock Capturing 

 a Lost Bird The True Phasianus Colchicus 

 Desirable Varieties for the Game Preserver How 

 to Prevent Sosmmerring Cocks Destroying their 

 Hens Pheasant Literature : Elliot's " Monograph 

 of Pheasants" 



N both sides of my house I have my aviaries, 

 seventeen in number, and, as I sit reading 

 or writing, I know the calls of the birds as 

 they utter their various notes of love or warfare. 

 Sometimes it is the harsh note of a Versicolor cock 

 as he crows, ending in an " oh ! " after first flap- 

 ping his wings, a feat which all pheasants perform. 

 No sooner has he crowed, than the challenge is taken 

 up either by a common pheasant, whose crow is 

 familiar to every sportsman, or by the quiet "chuckle, 



