Index. 



Acorns, excess of, injurious in confinement foge 83 



Agriculture, value of pheasants to 6 



Air, distention by 161 



Alarm guns 67 



Albania, wild pheasant in 43 



America, North, the pheasant in 39 



Amherst pheasant 232 



Ants' eggs 120, 123 



Argus pheasant 263 



Artichokes as food 60 



Aviaries, ornamental 90 



Barnes, J., on feeding in coverts 58 



Barren hens 64 



„ „ assuming male plumage 159 



Bartlett, A. D., on rearing young pheasants . . . . 123 



„ ,, on the transport of pheasants . . . 95 



Baskets for transporting pheasants 95 



Black-throated Golden pheasant 224 



Blyth on the fertility of hybrids 287 



,, on the call-note of Eeeves's pheasant 198 



Bohemian pheasants 173 



Bones, crushed, use of 84 



Brailing pheasants for transport 98 



Carr-EUison, E., on formation of coverts . . . . 45 



Cassin, John, on Scemmerring's pheasant 216 



Cats destructive to pheasants 76 



Chinese pheasant 176 



Coccidiosis 148 



Cock pheasants sitting and rearing yourg 18 



„ ,, killing down 63 



