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THE MONGOLIAN PHEASANTRY, 



Near HYTHE, KENT. 

 Proprietor : C, E. M. RUSSELL, F.Z.S,, M.R.A,C» 



(ASSOCIATE- GAME EGG GUILD). 



The great success which attended the rearing of half-bred Mongolian 

 pheasants last (1905) season, and the very favourable reports received of 

 the many excellent qualities of the birds, amply prove that this cross 

 produces the best pheasants for sport which have ever been brought to 

 the gun. 



The advantages claimed for this cross over ordinary pheasants are : — 



I St. Extreme hardihood and ability to resist disease, which swept 



off hundreds of common birds in the same rearing- field, but 



not one half-bred. 

 2nd. As compared with other pheasants, they are non-sfrayers. 

 3rd. They are higher and faster flyers, and readily take wing. 

 4th. They are far less pugnacious than other pheas mts — in fact, 



most peaceable birds. 

 5th. In October, they are several weeks ahead of common birds of 



the same age, both in size and plumage. 

 6th. They are of far better flavour on the table, as well as larger 



and more beautiful birds, than common pheasants. 



Being one of the true Phasianidce, the Mongolian fP. Mongolians) 

 crosses freely with the other members of the group, such as Colchicus, 

 Torquattis, Versicolor, Principalis, &c., the cross-bred birds being fertile 

 inter se, or with any of the parent races. 



The Mongolian pheasantry supplies half- and three-quarter-bred 

 Mongolian eggs, and a few eggs of the pure Versicolor, in April and 

 May, also pure and half-bred Mongolian cocks in autumn. 



The pure stock was derived from birds imported by Herr Carl 

 Hagenbeck, of Hamburg, who is, so far as I am aware, the sole importer 

 of these magnificent birds. He obtains them from the Altai mountains 

 in Mongolia. Fraudulent attempts are made to palm off cross-bred 

 birds, reared chiefly upon the Continent, as pure, and intending 

 purchasers of pure Mongolians who do not happen to be acquainted with 

 the plumage of P. Mongolicus, should first visit the Zoological Gardens, 

 Regents Park, and study the bird there. I have had cock birds 

 supplied me as pure which had far less Mongolian blood in them than 

 the half-breds reared by myself last season. 



I am at all times very pleased to show sportsmen over the Pheasantry, 

 and can send to meet them, either to Westenhanger Station (i| mile), or 

 Sandling Junction (25 milesi. 



January, 1906. Ch.JlRLES E. M. Russell. 



