250 PHEASANTS 



of a rival game bird, for on most of our 

 country estates in England, wherever soil 

 and surroundings, climate and cultiva- 

 tion, favour the production of game, 

 the November covert shoot follows the 

 partridge driving of October in the 

 established order of events. 



Each game-bird has its province 

 assigned to it, to the pheasant the park 

 and policies, to the partridge the arable 

 land outside. Unfortunately no bird is 

 more intolerant of restriction than the 

 wandering pheasant, and this allocation 

 of territory commonly results in half 

 the estate becoming a debateable land, 

 where the pheasant strives often only too 

 successfully to oust the partridge from 

 house and home. 



In the hand rearing of pheasants lies 

 at once the evil and its remedy : the evil, 

 for during half the year the coverts are 

 turned into a kind of congested area of 

 the game world, the consequences of 

 which no degree of liberality in feeding 

 will serve wholly to avert ; the remedy, 



