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darker colour than those of the young ones 

 in the first year : the crystal of the eye in the 

 former is also more yellow, whilst that of the 

 young ones of the first and second year is 

 white. But all these marks and signs are 

 not without many exceptions. 



To find the pheasants you must first un- 

 derstand their haunts, which are never in 

 open fields, but in thick young copses well 

 grown, and not in old high woods. Having 

 thus found out their coverts, which must be 

 solitary and untraced by men or cattle, the 

 next thing will be to find out the eye or 

 brood of pheasants. 



The first way is by going into those young 

 copses, and carefully viewing them, search- 

 ing every where, and by that means finding 

 where they run together, as chickens after a 

 hen : or, secondly, you must rise early in 

 the morning, or come late in the evening, 

 and observe how and when the old cock and 

 hen call their young ones to them, and how 



