94 



Aviary Pheasants. 



Impeyans, peculiar habits of, 59 



Importing specimens, 75 



Specimens, Mr. Jamrach's let- 

 ter on the difficulties of, 75 



Incubator, placing eggs near hatch- 

 ing in, 27 



Inhalation of carbolic acid fumes 

 for gapes, 77 



Jamrach's, Mr., letter on the diffi- 

 culty of importing specimens, 



75 

 Japanese, the, 54 



L. 



Lady Amhersts, 39 



Breeding, 40 



Cocks, tyrannical nature of, 16 



Colours of cocks, 40 



Colours of hens, 40 



Food for, 41 



Hardiness of, 40 



Introduction of, 39 



Number of hens to cock, 41 



Price of, 3 



Quairelsome nature of, 41 



Suitability of, for rearing in a 



wild state, 39 

 Layers, the earliest, 17 

 Laying hens, 1 7 



Hens, best foods for, 19 



Hens, feeding, 19 



Hens, food lor, 17 



Hens, shelter for, 17 



Hens, treatment of, 17 



In the open, dangers of, 18 



Period for, 1 7 



Leg weakness and boarded floors, 80 

 Lice, 8 1 



Literature, pheasant, 90 

 Lophophorus Impeyanus, 59 

 Love-making of Elliots, 86 



M. 



" Monograph of 

 Eliot's, 90 



Pheasants," 



Nest, making the, 22 

 Number of eggs to set, 20 



O. 



Old Amherst, 85 



Open aviary, keeping Golds in 



an, 2 

 Ophthalmia, 79 



P. 



Packing baskets, furnishing and 

 fitting, 83 



Birds, 82 



Birds, baskets for, 82 



Birds closely to be avoided, 82 



Eggs, 83 

 Peacocks, 57 



Colours of, 57 



Difficulties of breeding, 58 



Habits of, in native country, 57 



Shy breeders, 57 



Similarity in colours of sexes, 



57 



Pen, portable, for young birds, 12 

 Pens in blocks, 65 

 Perches for permanent aviaries, 8 

 Permanent aviaries, 4 



Aviaries, perches for, 8 



Aviaries, planting creepers in 

 front of, 7 



Aviaries, planting shrubs in 

 front of, 7 



Aviaries, soil for, 4 



Aviary, dimensions of, 4 



Aviary, drainage of, 7 



Aviary, erecting a, 478 



Aviary, shape of, 4 

 Persecution of hens by cock, how 



to avoid, 1 6 

 Phasianus colchicus, 61 



Colchicus, the true, 88 



Reevesii, 46 



Scemmerringii, 44 



Torquatus, 71 



Versicolor, 54 

 Polyplectron chinquis, 57 

 Portable aviaries, 1 1 



