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intended. Its practical value will be apparent 

 from the fact that only the year before his death, 

 Tegetmeier's Pheasants went into a fifth edition, 

 with beautiful coloured plates from drawings by 

 F. W. Frohawk. The second edition, with the 

 shorter title, was published in 1883 ; the third 

 edition, enlarged and having the longer title, 

 appeared in 1897, illustrated by J. G. Millais and 

 P. Smit, in addition to the others mentioned ; 

 and the fourth edition, again enlarged, was 

 issued in 1904. 



Game preservers owe a debt of gratitude to 

 Tegetmeier for his labours in connection with 

 pheasants and grouse, and with the disease that 

 in former years took such heavy toll of pheasant 

 chicks in the rearing-field. It is probable 

 that his interest in these beautiful birds was 

 originally due to the importation of species 

 theretofore unknown in this country, which began 

 about the year 1869. It was mainly the interest 

 of the student of natural history, for the arrival 

 at the Zoological Gardens of specimens of the 

 Argus, Soemmerring's, the Impeyan, the Amherst 

 or other pheasant, was sure to be chronicled by 

 him in the Field, with a drawing by Mr. Wood, 

 and all the particulars his wide reading enabled 

 him to add to his own observations. His medical 

 training served him in valuable stead in con- 

 nection with game-rearing problems, when the 

 disease which wrought such havoc among young 



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