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II. ' Choosing a convenient position in the rearing 

 field, or elsewhere close at hand, for setting the 

 pheasant eggs under the farm hens. 



III. ' Constructing or repairing coops and nesting 

 boxes. 



IV. ' Laying in a store of hen eggs as food for the 

 young pheasants. 



V. ' Arranging for a sufficient number of sitting 

 hens. 



VI. ' Making artificial nests in the boxes or coops 

 used for hatching. 



VII. ' Placing broody hens on the nests for three 

 or four days on imitation pheasant eggs, or on hen 

 eggs. 



VIII. ' Substituting fresh-laid pheasant eggs under 

 the hens that sit steadily, in place of their trial eggs. 



IX. ' Attention to the wants of the sitting hens. 



X. 'Daily inspection of the pheasant eggs, removal 

 of bad or broken eggs, and a rearrangement of the 

 nests when required so as to give full and simulta- 

 neous hatchings. 



XL ' Placing coops in the rearing field in good 

 time, if nesting boxes are utilised for hatching. 



XII. * Hatching out, transfer of the hens and 

 young from the nesting boxes, after a day's rest, 

 to the coops in the rearing field, or, if the birds were 



.ml I have frequently examined the nests of these hawks in the 

 rearing season, and found them and the ground underneath strewn 

 with the remains of young game. 



