192 FRANK SCHLEY'S PARTRIDGE AND PHEASANT SHOOTING. 



"Dr. N. Shoemaker published, in the North American 

 Medical and Surgical Journal, two cases of poisoning which 

 resulted from eating a Pheasant, in the craw of which lau- 

 rel leaves were found. The symptoms were nausea, tem- 

 porary blindness, pain in the head, dyspnoea, pallid counte- 

 nance, cold extremities, and a very feeble pulse. In both 

 cases relief was afforded by vomiting, produced by a table- 

 spoonful of flour of mustard mixed with warm water. 



A case of similar poisoning is related in the Edinburgh 

 Medical Journal, (May, 1856, page 1014), Wood & Bache, 

 U. 8. D. 



Pheasants feed by moonlight as well as by day. They 

 roost on the ground. They can see in the night and can 

 fly then, as well as by day. They roost just where sleep 

 overtakes them. 



I have frightened them up at all hours of the night. On 

 approaching them they would become alarmed and fly as 

 readily as they would in the day. I have frequently seen 

 it stated that when a number of Pheasants are in the same 

 tree feeding, several may be killed if you are careful to 

 shoot the lowest one each time. I have never found this 

 to be the case. In their native haunts, where I have pur- 

 sued them, I have frequently found Pheasants, in dogwood 

 trees, feeding on the berries. I have found them in gum, 

 and haw trees, and also in grape vines, and when I had the 

 luck to find more than one in a tree, I was always careful 

 enough to kill the lowest one first, but not in one instance 

 did I ever succeed in getting more than one shot at them 

 in the same tree ; at the report of the gun the upper ones 

 would spread their wings and speed away swift as bullets. 



