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oustard and oatmeal, &c., as recommended by Tegetmeier. 

 They were brought up in fields of standing corn and buckwheat, 

 surrounded by wire fences ten feet high, and the farm-yard hens 

 employed as foster mothers were at large in these fields. The 

 birds were pinioned when five days old. I wanted them 

 to be able to fly a Uttle, and severed the wing joint with 

 scissors, so as to leave them with two flight feathers. This 

 has proved a costly blunder, for with only these two flight 

 feathers the birds could fly over the ten feet of wire with the 

 greatest ease. It was quite a business to catch them in 

 October, when I moved into Sussex, and indeed I left several 

 birds in the woods of Conholt Park. Before turning them 

 down in Sussex I removed the two flight feathers from each 

 bird, but despite all precautions some of the birds still fly 

 over the wire. In shooting my woods several were seen, and 

 two were shot, being mistaken for ordinary wild birds, so 

 well did they fly. Bach pen consists of several acres of wood, 

 pasture, and arable land, which will be sown with corn and 

 buckwheat. Only five hens and one (unrelated) cock run 

 to the acre, therefore this breed of pheasant should remain 

 free from all civilised diseases. I may mention that I have 

 noticed that the birds are extremely fond of the flower of the 

 common charlock." 



By the courtesy of Colonel Sunderland I had the pleasure 

 of exhibiting at the British Ornithologists' Club, on Wednesday, 

 December 16, 1903, a magnificent stuffed specimen of a male 

 Prince of Wales's pheasant, in superb plumage and of great 

 size. It was the first seen that had been reared wild in our 

 coverts during that year. I also showed an imported hen 

 in the flesh, which, although it had the whole of the primary 

 feathers of one wing cut off, was capable of flying so well as 

 to be shot in mistake for an ordinary bird. The hens of this 

 species are remarkable for the absence of marking on the breast, 

 and the strongly marked bars on the whole of the flight feathers. 

 I cannot refrain from calling attention to the great success in 

 rearing these birds, which is detailed in Colonel Sunderland's 



