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Carl Hagenbeck. They attained im- 

 mense popularity, largely due to the 

 efforts of Mr. C. E. Russell, who started 

 a Mongolian game farm in the south of 

 England, and carried on a large business 

 for several years. They were constantly 

 praised as being at once larger, hardier, 

 stronger on the wing, better on rearing- 

 field, in covert, and on the table, slower 

 to stray and quicker to rise before the 

 beaters than our own birds. 



The first cross Mongolians are certainly 

 birds of remarkable size and weight, 

 though how far this would seem con- 

 ducive to high flying must be at least 

 doubtful, in the absence of any marked 

 development of wing to compensate for 

 increase of bulk. For the rest, the writer 

 can only offer an opinion that the Mon- 

 golian crosses are, generally speaking, 

 neither easier to rear, more or less prone 

 to stray, nor differ appreciably in any 

 other particular from the common hybrids 

 of the country. 



It would indeed appear that Mongolians 



