GAME BIRDS AND WILD FOWL. 



CHAPTER V. 



" Officium autem quod ab eo ducitur hanc primum habet viara, quae 

 deducit ad convenientiam conservationemque naturae, quam si seque- 

 mur ducem nunquam aberrabimus." CICEKO. 



The Pheasant Care and Attention necessary for his Increase 

 and Welfare Tame Pheasants Outlying Nests Eggs 

 Foster Mothers Barn-door and Bantam Hens Food 

 of the Chicks Ants' Eggs Best Mode of Collecting 

 them Out-of-door Management of the Young Pheasants 

 ( The Gapes' Prevention better than Cure Singular 

 Instance of its Malignity Origin of the Disease, and 

 consequent Inefficacy of ordinary Recipes Colonel Mon- 

 tagu's Cure Pheasants' Eggs The Practice of Pur- 

 chasing them reprehended Importance of obtaining 

 them in a Fresh State Experiment to effect that 

 Object Accident Open Pheasantry The Rivals 

 The Victor vanquished Nature the best Guide Unex- 

 pected Result. 



ALTHOUGH there is something repulsive to the 

 true sportsman in the idea of encouraging by 

 artificial means the objects of his pursuit, yet 

 there are so many and such peculiar circum- 

 stances connected with the nature of the phea- 

 sant that it may justly be considered an excep- 

 tion to the rule, and unless in certain highly 



