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capable of flying so well as to be shot in mistake for an 

 ordinary bird. The hens of this species are remarkable 

 for the absence of markings on the breast, and the strongly 

 marked bars on the whole of the flight feathers. I cannot 

 refrain from calling attention to the great success in rearing 

 these birds, which is detailed in Colonel Sunderland's com- 

 munication a success obviously due to the size of his pens, 

 and to his young birds being allowed to roam at large under 

 their foster parents, and obtain a great part of their own food 

 from the corn, buckwheat, and the artichokes grown in these 

 pens for their use. When will English gamekeepers learn 

 that pheasants reared in this manner are infinitely superior in 

 health, vigour, and hardihood to those that are raised under 

 cooped hens in the ordinary manner, and that the diseases 

 which are so fatal to birds on overcrowded ground are 

 unknown to birds raised under these conditions ? 



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