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INDEX. 



Japanese Pheasant ., page 98 



Jerusalem artichokes for pheasants 36 



Jesse for tethering hens 76 



Kestrel occasionally destructive to young ... 47 



Laying, date of 11 



Leno, Mr., on rooks destroying eggs 43 



Leno, Mr., pheasantries at Dunstable 51 



Lettuce, use of 54 



Lilford, Lord, on Eeeves's Pheasant Ill 



Lort, Mr. W., on feeding in coverts 34 



MacgiUivray, description of the common 



pheasant 89 



MacgUlivray on food of pheasant 3 



Male plumage, assumption of, by female ... 81 



Mantchurian Pheasant 129 



Marco Polo on Reeves's Pheasant 108 



Mayes, Mr. T., on Reeves's Pheasant Ill 



Mock pheasants, to make 39 



Moorhen destructive to young pheasants ... 47 



Naumann on the food of the pheasant 2 



Nesting 8 



Nests in trees 9 



Net for catching pheasants in aviaries 57 



New Zealand, successful acclimatisation in . . . 23 



Non- domesticity of common pheasant 17 



Oak spangles as food for pheasants 4 



Open pens for pheasants 55 



Ophthalmia in young pheasants 86 



Pall Mall Gazette on pheasant rearing 64 



Partridges laying in pheasants' nests 9 



Pens for pheasants 50 



Perry, Com., on Soemmerring's Pheasant ... 104 



Phasianus colchicus 89 



Phasia/nus decoUatus 97 



Phasianus msignis 97 



Phasia/nus mongolicus 97 



Phasiarms pictus 113 



Phasianus reevesii 108 



Phasianus sci/ntillans 106 



Phasianus shawii 97 



Phasianus soemmerringii 103 



Phasianus superhus 109 



Phasianus torquatus 94 



Phasianus veneratus 108 



Phasianus versicolor 98 



Phasia/nus wallichii 112 



Pied pheasants pO'9B 93 



Pinioning young birds 106 



Potatoes, boiled, use of 53 



Preserves, management of pheasants in 25 



Rearing in preserves 37 



Rearing young pheasants 71 



Reeves's Pheasant 108 



Ring-necked Pheasant 95 



Rooks destructive to pheasants 43 



Roup in pheasants 81 



Scent, suppression of, during nesting 48 



Sclater, Mr. P. L., on transport of pheasants 139 



Sexes, due proportion required 37 



Shot, pheasants poisoned by eating 88 



Silver Pheasant 126 



Sinclaire, Mr., on Golden Pheasants 115 



Sitting hens, arrangement recommended ... 66 



Slow- worms eaten by pheasants 5 



Soemmerring's Pheasant 103 



St. Helena, pheasants in 23, 96 



Stone, Mr. J., introd. of Reeves's Pheasant 111 



Swimming, examples of 7 



Swinhoe, Consul, on the Silver Pheasant ... 126 



Swinhoe, Consul, on the Eared Pheasant ... 130 



Tameness, examples of 14 



Thaumalea atnher slice 121 



Thaumalea dbscura 114 



Thaumalea picta 113 



Thompson, Mr., on food of pheasant 3 



Transport of pheasants, instructions for ... 139 



Vegetable food, necessity for 54 



Wallace, Mr., on the Argus Pheasant 134 



Water, catchpools for, in coverts 35 



Water, rearing young without 77 



Waterton, Mr., on non-domesticity of 



pheasant 17 



Waterton, Mr., on formation of coverts 29 



Weight of common species 13 



White pheasants 92 



Whyte, Col. J., rooks destroying eggs 45 



Windows broken by pheasants 5 



Wireworms eaten by pheasants 4 



Wood, Mr. T. W., display of Gold P 113 



Wood, Mr. T. W., display of Argus P 136 



Wool, death of young pheasants caused by. . . 87 



Yew poisonous to pheasants 87 



