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The house should be of about the same size and construction 

 as would be used for a few fowls. A roosting place should also be 

 made in the yard, for as a rule the birds will prefer to roost out- 

 doors. The house is to afford them proper shelter from severe 

 storms and during prolonged damp weather. For either a pair 

 or a pen of a male and several females the yard should contain 

 about 600 square feet. The fences inclosing it should be at least 

 6 feet high, and the top should be covered with wire netting. 



FIG. 174. Young China Pheasants at feeding time. (Photograph from 

 Simpson's Pheasant Farm, Corvallis, Oregon) 



The Silver, Soemmerring, and Swinhoe Pheasants mate in 

 pairs ; the other familiar kinds are polygamous, and from one 

 to five or six females may be kept with one male. 



Pheasants may be fed the same things as are fed to fowls, 

 and in much the same manner, but there is one important 

 difference which the pheasant breeder must carefully observe. 

 Fowls will stand abuse in the matter of diet much better than 

 pheasants will. In feeding the latter more attention must be 

 given to providing regular supplies of green food, to having all 



