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pan or box of bran : to be given sparingly, and not 

 considered as common food. 



FOOD for grown pheasants, barley or wheat ; gene- 

 rally the same as for other poultry. In a cold spring, 

 HEMP SEEP, or other warming seeds, are comfortable, 

 and will forward the breeding stock. 



Of the Noblemen and Gentlemen who have PRI- 

 VATE MENAGERIES for pheasants, and who are large 

 breeders, Lord BRAYBROOK, at Audley End, Essex, 

 and the Earl of JERSEY, at Osterley Park, Middle- 

 sex, are among the most eminent. At a park in 

 Middlesex, seven or eight miles beyond Bushy 

 Park, I saw, many years ago, a greater collection of 

 pheasants and partridges than I had ever before, or 

 have since witnessed. There are also pheasant 

 breeders who make a trade of it, rearing two or three 

 hundred in a season. It was formerly held imprac- 

 ticable to breed any considerable number of these 

 birds, on the supposition that they could not be 

 reared on any other food than ants' eggs, of which a 

 sufficient plenty could never be depended on ; but in 

 all probability, those already recommended are very 

 sufficient substitutes. 



The following information was lately communi- 

 cated to the author, by a landed Gentleman of Scot- 

 land, his respected friend. " About fifty years ago 

 the Pheasant was introduced into the south-east 

 county of Scotland, which, for climate, shelter, and 

 food, is perhaps the best: within the last twenty 

 years, several gentlemen have attempted to natural- 

 ize it in the counties Fife and Forfar, north of the 

 great estuary of the Forth. The experiment has 



