426 THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
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has been well — wainted with their habits for years, 
informs me, result of his experience, that their 
cunning is such, that if equently driven away from 
— 2 ticular hour he day or evening, wo 
after a e will never be found there at 
ke their inroad 
tain 
s ial hour, but will invariably ma 
e n ti ak. n, resource I have tried ejecting 
of scorn and insult, such as harsh 
kill from 12 8 = Aer fay from a week to a fort- 
night old, dur me day ; but if they came across 
e | brood of 1 = hicks or ellen, a few 2 * they 
in "e 
it would 
words, th the e erasing of ng nag the throwing, of harm- 
less. b Most domes mals, believe 
many ag are sensitive * — . — and 
— feel as a severe rebuke the manner in which they 
out. But — owl are Roost ied 
— therefore, whose fruit and vegetable gar- 
ce, is almost the only place where they 
provided t 
by “see — encouragement hey will soon be taught 
to dis 
mselves into.a table 
point of view sae tasteful — an y deom desirable, No 
one with a very limited r; tempt to keep 
a 
pang ee appearance, 
they should | require to be bro 
hood, 
sign of any murderous thinning. peahen, who, 
aati she has 1855 or young, seems really a more e guilty 
i n general even suspecte is it 
re be steal a horse white another — not 
look over the 
e hen Suma a lay till her third summer ; but she 
en seems to have an instinctive fear of her mate, 
wht 
PES 
f e 
lays from four o 
will frequently lay a second time 
ended 
she go there 
If these are dien. she 
oded longer than pan hen is able conve- 
urkey will p better 
respect. The 
course o be permitted to take charge of om ggs. 
Sre without vga assistance she will be e suc- 
ssful. Those 
the: 3 which caused the 
ent with 
ears ago (and perhaps 
of Cates, near Naples. 
glish garden,* admir. eign 
part is a small piece of water, in 
sunbeams amon 
A second objection to ane is their alleged wanton de- 
1 towar e yo 
peponi > 8 be I have 
such contr ee Sas ents, that they can only be 
papaa by the hypothesis baht the ock. beeome 
ung of other poultry,t a 
heard, and read § 
of 
ineyard be at hand, The 
re | accor 
g the topmost | 
g to my th yof genom po a ey 
engaging ee things, most elegant in rid Se ct 
ery ta onfident. e heard of on 
nah wader » a hien, that ‘on Tn apn ie hand to 
run kapr 
rdi 
eathers very “highly Raval gs 
days they will fly up and perch upon 
i a fortnight they will roost on trees or the 
tops of sheds, and at a month or six u would 
them on t a barn, if there were any inter- 
—— — Were or other ee on 3 — p 
em to mount from one he oth mu 
elever makio * would get at the — . ete 
en 
He 
it Hou 
and will seareely bear. “Moss li iberal al feeding: is the 
this species vary in disposition een as the human 
28 produced individuals. a euch diverse 2 
individuals of differe 
best Bond of game e but even with that they will 
e off, aud will perhaps be stopped o 
suspiciou 
mend keeping — I would procuro à 
iting of a place under a turkey hen, and 
zE 
8. 05 
em 
n- pes the 2 of watching hain whole progress, 
liters 
d 
peal ab o hose who are impatient. to have a 
95 The gravel for some of the 
singto 
15 
the walks was — from Ken- 
+ 
“ objicent Fea, t facillime continetur, 
limiter — 
„ qualis 
Nam Sb gees nec sub. 
furis, ac apts ma No § 
tode tuto ¥ 
per longa — 1 
noxioram animalium pe us noa ent, sio 
„Studi- 
qu 
for a since ro is n 
or vermin, th yer 
find themecives the 1 fo at large . top a 
as if freed from of their own accord’ 
their cir Menges dome 
ata certain time 
em a — arg as s they 
t be fi 'amishe: 
are 
h aro — game oi of. 
— wal the en can 
e still i — ¢ 
— 
© Peahens, | pear 
ei es 
„ should still select birds not more tlian 
man; . ight be expected of a bird that has in 
been reared in captivity for se thous: 
Repasa ia 
ar 
a liveried at- 
nous, and itis only by pampering this 
persuaded e sa oe an 
e sa 
hens those titbits and d e coc 
vourites or yield t to them 
her lo rd 
him when ome’ 
Sh 
i she 
c 
00 they — 
18 
aks Just ha f the fami 
of them on ‘Mie head, mhen aly | 
. ba e te 
5 
oults 
he pet of 
. | thin 
S, |. stances, is most 
nares — 
sic 
why 
I) of 
pable of considerable attachment whe 
e 
greedily snatch from > ay mouth of his | 
= rsels 
in full plumage; 
nor do niays so — enga, ge with each other as wy 
birds paei ingee: a 2 sp as wii 
One, — * fea —— was seen —— up a „e 
struggle with a musk drake; had it been in full pl hoar 
uld not have shown fish H. Their ng 
term of life is 18 or 20 s 
They 
If "fatted, they SES 
apprec 
salmon, 3 in the dog: days, and ile al o 
a similar pem given bad r ep aga Se 
ings, did nage them better. When 
dressed for table, — should be larded over the 
covered wit paper, Toe at a gentle fire, and 
with bread-sauc 
tridges or pheasants. moultin 
varieties of food, incinding Hemp. see 4 
esirable. 
In e peahen makes her nest on 
grou t Nettles or 8 r yn? — 
she ke the helt ter of a young Fir tree, The egg 
very much resembles that of the 2 strich in miniature, 
being sm ooth but indented all ma hir little dimples, 
if invited with a stron 3 bigger 
than a turkey's egg, bulging considera n the larger 
end, of a dull yellowish white, occasionally, but not 
ted, or rather freokled, with a few small 
marks.. The new hatched chicks are 
striped on the head and neck with ulternate stripes of 
din ney ren and pale brown; the legs are of a dusky 
Jello inge. 
There are two varieties of the common 
tail il faintly vse 
by th 
eat, produced by birds 
intercourse with other 3 birds can 
s! 2 in 
ose parents were both of the usual 3 there 
were two of the common sort, and one white cock and 
one ears hen. 
and fastidious 8 object to their ery or 
are 
i 
rv 
call, which, indeed, is not melodious ; and a strip of 
woollen cloth is asia — ‘tine round their néck in 
the fashion of a collar, to silence them ; the appendage 
however, i hing but an ornament, d the effect is 
not per But I must take it to be an unhealthy 
symptom, when any natural or rural sound is displeas- 
ing to the ing of rooks, the 
g 
hipy suggest an 
carci 
ms Si ö was, till lately, sgn ote 
— . 3 of its genus; - fos presery® ved 
ving specimens o 
a long while was a ere —.— 
troduced in But there i 
parr are m0r 
instead o 
| cated feathers on the 
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