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pledged to the practical, not the aesthetic, their 

 market value must receive first consideration. 



Aviaries have become so universal since 

 fashion decreed that a wealthy man must own 

 a country estate to be among the elite, that 

 the demand for birds of handsome plumage 

 far exceeds the supply. The Lady Amherst, 

 Reeves, Golden, Silver, and some half dozen 

 other fancy pheasants head the list of favor- 

 ites. 



Then a big estate is not complete without 

 game preserves for the lords of creation to 

 shoot over; so, like our English cousins of 

 high degree, Americans now spend large sums 

 each year in stocking their woodlands with 

 game, this consisting chiefly of the plebeian 

 members of this same pheasant family, known 

 as the English and Ring-neck. This makes 

 it advisable to keep at least one pair or trio 

 of ornamental pheasants for aviaries; and of 

 the common for stocking preserves. 



My personal experience has been confined 

 to the Golden and the Ring-neck. A Sea- 



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