iv PREFACE. 
inclosed pheasantries, to enter into the numerous little details respecting their 
food, management, protection, rearing, diseases, &c., is the object at which I have 
aimed in the preparation of the following work. 
I shall first treat of the Natural History of the Pheasants generally—their 
food, habits, nesting, &c.—as far as may be’ considered desirable in a work of this 
kind. Then will follow the consideration of their Management in Preserves, the 
details of the different methods of feeding the birds, their protection from their 
numerous enemies, the formation of coverts, &c. This will be succeeded by an 
account of their Treatment in inclosed Pheasantries, the hatching of the eggs, 
rearing and feeding the young birds, and the prevention and cure of their diseases. 
A detailed description of all the different species adapted for turning out, and 
of the various hybrids and crosses between them, will follow; and the work will 
conclude with an account of the allied ornamental species, such as the Gold, Silver, 
and Amherst Pheasants, and the best methods of their Management in Aviaries. 
Of the admirable engravings which illustrate the volume I may remark, in 
the words of Izaak Walton, “Next let me add this, that he that likes not the 
book should like the excellent pictures . . . . which I may take a liberty to 
commend, because they concern not myself.” 
W. B. TEGETMETER. 
FIncatey, N. 
March, 1881. 
