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A MONOGRAPH 



OF 



THE PHEASANTS 



By WILLIAM BEEBE. 



This work has been compiled from the author's own observations, 

 and from all published sources. 



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A. THORBURN. C. R. KNIGHT, G. E. LODGE, 



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The Pheasants of the World, 



Their haunts, their changes of plumage and their nests and eggs. 

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