PHOTOGRAVURE 43 



ORIGINAL HOME OF THE ENGLISH PHEASANT, LOWER VALLEY OF THE 

 SAFED RUD, BETWEEN THE CASPIAN AND THE BLACK SEAS 



This particular spot Is Inhabited by the Tallsch Caucasian Pheasant, Phasianus colchicus talischensis 

 Lorenz, one of the three closely related forms living In the region between these two great Inland seas. 

 It was from this area that the Romans brought the first birds to Britain. The land Is not fertile and 

 is broken up by rivers, small during the seasons of dryness, but swelling into great torrents in the rains. 

 The people are little changed from the times of old when the waves of emigrants swept first in one 

 direction, then in another, and left this hinterland of Asia, the northernmost edge of Persia, wild and 

 semi-civilized. 



Here the pheasants still lay their eggs and rear their broods, just as their transported fellows do in 

 the coverts of England and America. 



