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PHEASANTS FOR COYERTS AND AVIARIES. 



interbreed freely with any species of pheasants ah'eady 

 introduced, and from their great size, excellent edible qualities, 

 and gorgeous coh.iratioii, would be grand and luost acceptable 

 additions to our coverts and well repay the trouble incurred 

 in tlicir in]]")ort;itiou. 



The vignette shows the head (jf a singular variety of the 

 common ])heasant which occasi(jually appears in fche coverts 

 at Elsenhaui und elsewliere ; it bears a remarkable i-esemblance 

 to 1\ nljilii-niliji J which has not yet been introduced into 

 Europe in a living state. 





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