VARIETIES BREEDING INSTRUCTIONS. 



natives of Tartary, bred in China, very scarce ; 

 their plumage very beautiful. The WHITE and 

 PIED ; both sorts will intermix readily with our com- 

 mon breed, as will the BOHEMIAN, one of the most 

 beautiful of its kind, and equally scarce. The 

 GOLDEN variety is generally of the highest price, 

 the common most hardy, and of the largest size. 



Instructions for breeding Pheasants. By P. CAS- 

 TANG, Son-in-law and Manager to the late JOSHUA 

 BROOKS. 



EGGS being provided, put them under a hen that 

 has kept the nest three or four days ; and if you set 

 two or three nests on the same day, you will have 

 the advantage of shifting the good eggs. At the 

 end of ten or twelve days, throw away those that 

 are bad, and set the same hen or hens again, if 

 sitting hens should not be plenty. 



The hens having sat their full time, such of the 

 young pheasants as are already hatched put into a 

 basket, with a piece of flannel, till the hen has done 

 hatching. 



The brood, now come, put under a frame with a 

 net over it, and a place for the hen, that she cannot 

 get to the young pheasants, but that they may go to 

 her : and feed them with boiled egg cut small, 

 boiled milk and bread, alum curd, ants' eggs, a little 

 of each sort, and often. 



After two or three days, they will be acquainted 



