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The late Professor H. H. (Tig'lioli, writing- o£ Corsica, 

 remarlvcd. : " I was I'ejjeatciUy assured of the jiresence in the 

 ishmd, among the hills of Aloria on the eastern coast, of the 

 pheasant Phasianus (■(ilchinis in a perfectly wild condition. T 

 see that Mr. Jesse reports the same thing. . . I am 



still making in([niries on the suhject ; Ijiit, as far a.s I can see, 

 no record of its introdiicti(.)n hy man is forthci.iming." (/"/'('■■>■, 

 April, 1881.) 



COCK I'HEiVSiVNT DISI'LAYINC ITS PLUH.IGE. 



