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114 A MONOGRAPH OF THE PHEASANTS 



where they feed on all sorts of grain, and do not even reject young potatoes, which they 

 swallow whole. In the oak-forests pheasants were shot which had their crops full of 

 acorns ; and in the autumn the birds became very fat on this diet. In Ussuri the 

 breeding season lasts until the end of June, and young were taken in early July. 



The few other notes which might be applicable to the life history of this form 

 relate also to the several pheasants to the southland, and, indeed, so identical are the 

 habits of these birds, that what may be recorded of one is true of all. 



