THE MONGOLIAN PHEASANT. 



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pheasants were but three or four weeks old they flew over the 

 fence and into the adjacent woods. The treatment of the 

 young Mongolian was quite different from the directions given 

 for raising English pheasants. After the first week the board 

 was taken away from the little yard, and the birds were 

 allowed to go at pleasure into the large inclosure, shutting 

 them up at night and letting them out in the morning, often 

 by five o'clock, making no effort to keep them out of the wet 

 grass or rain. They sometimes became quite wet, but did 

 not seem any the worse for it. They will stand any weather 

 if properly fed. Coming from the rough climate of China and 

 Southern Siberia, they suffer more from the heat in July and 

 August than from the most severe winter weather." 



These directions will afford considerable assistance to 

 many pheasant rearers in districts were ants' eggs are not 

 abundant, and there is not the slightest doubt that the 

 information given in the valuable account extracted from 

 the Massachusetts Commiasion will be of great interest to 

 all pheasant rearers. 





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