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once be distinguished from male birds by their wanting the 

 red naked skin about the eyes. 



The pheasant has an inclination to breed with other 

 species of the gallinaceous birds. The late Rev. Gilbert 

 White, of Selbourne, described and figured a bird in the 

 " Naturalist's Calender/' killed in Hampshire, which he con- 

 sidered a hybrid between the pheasant and domestic fowl. 



The ordinary weight of the pheasant is about two pounds 

 and a half ; but in some localities, where they are well fed 

 and not molested, they grow to a much greater weight. Mr. 

 Fisher, a poulterer in Duke-street, St. James's, London, in 

 January, 1839, exhibited a pheasant which weighed four 

 pounds and a quarter. In the fifteenth volume of the 

 " Linnasan Transactions" mention is made, that at Campsey 

 Ash, where the pheasants are well fed with potatoes, buck- 

 wheat, and barley, a cock pheasant has been killed which 

 weighed four pounds and a half; and Mr. Louis Jaquier, 

 formerly of the Clarendon, produced a brace of cock phea- 

 sants which weighed together about nine pounds. The 

 lighter bird of the two just turned the scale against four 

 pounds and a half ; the other bird took the scale down at 

 once. 



GROUSE-SHOOTING. 



Of all kinds of shooting this is decidedly the best, and 

 most desired by the true sportsman. It is one requiring 

 considerable exertion, and in many instances fatiguing ; and 

 nowhere is it of such high interest as in Scotland, among 

 those secluded glens and sloping heather-clad moors, which 

 are embosomed in the high mountain ranges, for which that 

 country is so remarkable. 



The most appropriate dress for this sport is a light shoot- 

 ing-jacket, breeches, long leather-leggings, and stout shoes, all 



