118 PHEASANTS FOR COVERTS AND AVIARIES. 



as it ])leased, and to find the food for its brood as wild 

 pheasants would do. 1 am snre the experiment wonld, in 

 some people's hands^ prove most successful, notwithstanding 

 the use (jf such a big lien for the purpose." 



The disparity Ijetween the size of the turkey lien and the 

 young pheasants may appear too great to afford any hope of 

 success, but, as I have sa,id^ the plan is followed in (Germany, 

 and in France turkey hens are largely employed to hatch 

 chickens, and those only who have noticed the deliberate and 

 delicate manner in which the foster parent puts down her foot 

 when tending her young will not wonder at the success of the 

 system advocated. 



