CHAPTER XIII. 



Pheasant and Game Preserving. 



To various groups of sportsmen and naturalists 

 Tegetmeier was known as a specialist in regard 

 to the particular bird or beast favoured by each 

 group : to one he was the great bee-master, to 

 another he was the father of pigeon-fanciers ; to 

 one group he was "the" authority on domestic 

 fowls, while to yet another he was known as a 

 great judge of cats. But, according to his own 

 paper, the Field, the subject of all others by 

 which his name became even more widely known 

 to the public was the rearing of pheasants for 

 coverts and aviaries, an enterprise which of late 

 years has become an important industry, but 

 which was still in its infancy when he published 

 the first edition of what has proved to be the 

 standard work on the subject, Pheasants : their 

 Natural History and Practical Management, or 

 Pheasants for Coverts and Aviaries, as it was 

 originally called. Appearing first as a quarto 

 volume, with full-page engravings of the principal 

 kinds of pheasants from drawings by the late 

 T. W. Wood, one of the best zoological artists 

 of his day, it was subsequently re-issued in 

 octavo, as being more suited in that form to the 

 requirements of those for whom it was chiefly 



