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Two coloured plates of birds, and many charming black

and white illustrations grace the pages of this very interesting

volume. One of the latter is reproduced with this notice by the

kind permission of the publishers.



PHEASANTS*


This standard work of the veteran ornithologist, Mr.

Tegetmeier, is so well known to all who take any interest in the

magnificent group of which it treats, that there is not much to

be said in introducing it to our members. No one who keeps

Pheasants, either for the covert or in the aviary, can possibly

afford to be without this book. The advice as to the treatment of

the birds and the rearing of their young is sound and practical to

a degree, and we may say that nearly everything that is worth

knowing about Pheasants can be learnt from its pages.


The fourth edition which is now published is enlarged

and brought thoroughly up to date, and although it is, as

before, offered at the very moderate price of 7/6, no less than

six very beautiful coloured plates are given, in addition to the

numerous black plates and text illustrations that have appeared

in the former editions.


The coloured plates represent the Mongolian Pheasant

(Phasianus mongo liens'), the Common Pheasant (P. colchicus ), the

Chinese Pheasant (P. torquatus), the Japanese Pheasant (P. versi¬

color), Reeve’s Pheasant ( P. reevesi), and Hagenbeck’s Pheasant

(P. hagenbeckii). They have been drawn by Mr. Frohawk,

and reproduced by the three-colour process, which in this case

has been eminently successful, the pictures being barely

distinguishable by the ordinary individual from good chromos.

Hagenbeck’s Pheasant is a magnificent form, inhabiting the

Kobdo Valley, N. W. Mongolia. It was described by the Hon.

Walter Rothschild at a meeting of the British Ornithologists’

Club on Nov. 20th, 1901 : and in April 1903 a large number of

Pheasants; apparently belonging to this identical form, were



* Pheasants , their natural history and Practical Management. By W. B. Tegetmeier,

F.Z.S. Fourth Edition, enlarged. London : Horace Cox, The Field Office, Bream’s

Buildings, E.C. Price 7/6.



