Index. 263 



Female plumage, assumption of, by male . . . . page 160 



Plight of pheasants 9 



Food for young 120 



,, of pheasants 8, 55, 83 



Foxes, protection of nests from 76 



Frohawk, Mr. F. W., on the Sungarian pheasant . . 208 



Gapes in pheasants 151 



Gentles as food 84, 122, 192 



Golden pheasant 222 



„ „ wild in Oregon 42 



Gould on P. scemmerringii 219 



„ on P. torquatus . . . . 176 



,, on P. versicolor 183 



Granite grit for pheasants 85, 108, 166 



Grasshoppers eaten by pheasants 53 



Greece, distribution of pheasants in 43 



Greaves, objections to 84 



Guisachan, Reeves's pheasant at 202 



Hammond Smith, Dr. H., on food for pheasants . . 84, 85 



,, ,, ,, on diseases of pheasants . . 146 

 ,, ,, ,, on markings of P. colchicus and 



P. torquatus 191 



Harting, Mr. J. E., on pheasant in Middle Ages.. .. 30 



., ,, ,, feeding on slow-worm 7 



,, ,, ,, in ancient Psalter . . 34 



,, on rooks destroying eggs . . . . 70 



,, „ on trap for taking pheasants . 94 



Hedgehogs destructive to eggs 77 



Heine, H., on habits of Japanese pheasants . . 184, 212 



Hens assuming cock plumage 159 



Hens, varieties best adapted for hatching 112 



„ visited by wild cocks 87 



Hewitt, E., on Golden pheasants . . . . 228 



Huts for shelter 59 



Hybrid Eeeves's pheasant 205 



