INDEX. 



Acorns injurious in confinement P<^s 53 



Alarm guns 41 



Amterst pheasant 121 



Argus pheasant 134 



AviarieSj pheasants adapted for 113 



Bamesj Mr. 3., on feeding in coTerts 34 



Bartlett, Mr., on rearing young pheasants ... 73 



Bartlettj Mr., on Soemmerring's Pheasant... 103 



Bartlett, Mr., on the transport of pheasants 139 



Baskets for transporting pheasants 60 



Bennett, Dr., on Eeeves^s Pheasant 108 



Blindness in. young pheasants 86 



Blyth, Mr. Ed., on call-note of Eeeyes' 110 



Bohemian Pheasants! 91 



Bones, crushed, use of 64 



-Carbolic acid for gapes 85 



Carreau, Mons., on the Amherst Pheasant. . . 122 

 Carr-Ellison, Mr., on formation of coverts. . . 25 



■Catarrh in pheasants 81 



■Cats destructive to pheasants 49 



Chinese pheasants 94 



Cobbold, Dr. Spencer, on gapes 82 



Cock pheasants sitting 11 



■Cocks, proportion to be left 37 



Common pheasant 89 



■Coops for young pheasants 67 — 75 



Cordeaux, Mr., on po^wer of flight 16 



■Courtship, display of plumage during 8 



Coverts, formation of 25 



Coverts, pheasants adapted for 89 



■Cramp in pheasants 81 



Crook's arrangements for pheasantries 52 



•Cross-bred pheasants in coverts 102 



Cross-bred Amherst and Gold Pheasants ... 112 



■Grossoptilon mantchurieum 129 



■Crowing 8 



Curd as food for young pheasants 72 



Custard'as food for young pheasants 72 



Dar-win, Captain, on mock pheasants 39 



Darwin, Mr. C, on cross-bred Soemmerring 106 

 Dawkins, Mr.W. B.,on introduc. into England 1 7 



Digestive organs jjajre 5 



Diseases of pheasants 81 



Distribution throughout Europe 23 



„ „ Great Britain 21 



Domestication, pheasants not capable of ... 16 



Douglas, Mr. J., rearing young pheasants. . . 74 



Bared Pheasant 129 



Egg eating by pheasants 62 



Egg testers 68 



Eggs, -when sold, usually stolen 65 



Huplocamus nycthemerus and allied species. . . 126 



Exportation of pheasants 139 



Feeding in coverts 32 



Feeding troughs objectionable 33 



Fir blossoms poisonous to young 87 



Firs, species best adapted for coverts 26 



Fhght of pheasants 5 



Food of pheasants 2 



Food of pheasants during transport 139 



Foxes, driving them from ■vicinity of nests. . . 49 



Gapes in pheasants 82 



Golden Pheasant 113 



Gould, Mr. J., on Phasianus soemmerringii. . . 106 



Gould, Mr. J., on PhasiaTms torquatus 96 



Gould, Mr. J., on Phasianus versicolor 99 



Greece, distribution of pheasants in 24 



Harting, Mr., on pheasant in Middle Ages. . . 18 



Harting, Mr., on rooks destroying eggs ... 46 



Hatching in confinement 61 



Hedgehogs destructive to eggs 49 



Heine, Mr., on habits of Japanese Pheasant 99 



Heine, Mr., on Soemmering's Pheasant 104 



Hens, varieties best adapted for hatching ... 66 



He-witt, Mr. Ed., on Golden Pheasants 117 



Introduction of pheasants into England 17 



Introduction into Ireland, date of 20 



Introduction into Scotland, date of 20 



Introduction into St. Helena 23 



