LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING PAGE 



1. The Rise Frontispiece 



2. The Common Pheasant . . . . 17 



3. The Reeves Pheasant .... 82 



4. The Japanese Pheasant .... 49 



5. The Mongolian Pheasant . . 64 



6. The Chinese Pheasant . . . . 81 



7. ' Other days, other ways ' ... 96 



8. An Open Flight 98 



9- The Prince of Wales Pheasant . . 113 



10. ' There's many a slip* . . .128 



11. The Feed 145 



12. Nature's Provender . . . . 160 



13. The Rearing-Field 257 



14. Breaking back 272 



15. Over the High Trees .... 305 



16. ' The old order changeth' . . . 320 



