iv PREFACE. 



inclosed pleasantries, to enter into the numerous little details respecting their 

 food, management, protection, rearing, diseases, &c,, is the object at which I have 

 aimed in the preparation of the following work. 



I shall first treat of the Natural History of the Pheasants generally — their 

 food, habits, nesting, &c. — as far as may be considered desirable in a work of this 

 kind. Then will follow the consideration of their Management in Preserves, the 

 details of the different methods of feeding the birds, their protection from their 

 numerous enemies, the formation of coverts, &c. This will be succeeded by an 

 account of their Treatment in inclosed Pheasantries, the hatching of the eggs, 

 rearing and feeding the young birds, and the prevention and cure of their diseases. 



A detailed description of/ all the different species adapted for turning out, and 

 of the various hybrids and crosses between them, will follow; and the work will 

 conclude with an account of the allied ornamental species, such as the Gold, Silver, 

 and Amherst Pheasants, and the best methods of their Management in Aviaries. 



Of the admirable engravings which illustrate the volume I may remark, in 

 the words of Izaak Walton, " Next let me add this, that he that likes not the 

 book should like the excellent pictures .... which I may take a liberty to 

 commend, because they concern not myself." 



W. B. TEGETMEIEE. 



EiNCHLBT, N. 



March, 1881. 



