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on wing with startling rapidity, and will 

 then fly as high and twice as quick as 

 any other pheasant. 1 



Thus may the Reeves, who, when once 

 firmly established, should require little or 

 no human assistance to maintain his race, 

 add a new feature of interest to woods 

 now only tenanted by the occasional 

 woodcock and the roe-deer. 



Reeves pheasants were at one time 

 reared in some numbers at Guisachan, 

 in the wilds of Glen Affric, then the 

 property of Lord Tweedmouth, and Mr. 

 Millais has given both with pen and 

 pencil charming records of the sport he 

 enjoyed. Since this estate changed hands 

 eight years ago, there has been but little 

 rearing of pheasants. A few Reeves, 

 however, are still reared every year, and 

 are reported to be quite as easy to bring 



1 The writer can well remember a certain Reeves in 

 the Island of Bute. He ran at great speed from the 

 covert towards the gun ; when within thirty yards the 

 cock took wing, and was a high bird travelling apace, 

 when shot straight overhead. He proved to be nearly 

 a foot longer than his slayer, who is somewhat below the 

 normal stature of man. 



